Mini Minstrels

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Pick a piece, or compose a new one

The Mini Minstrels were trained to sing on thousands of old public-domain pieces. You can compose a new piece right here in your browser, and the minstrels will sing it. Pick one from the list to listen. Click a singer to put them in the spotlight; click again to let them go. Drop a .mid file anywhere to play it. Space plays and pauses.

Sounds: Salamander Grand Piano (CC BY 3.0), MusyngKite soundfont via gleitz/midi-js-soundfonts (CC BY-SA 3.0). Scores engraved with Verovio (LGPL-3.0).

Meet the Mini Minstrels

Every piece these little singers perform is brand new. The minstrels' brain is a small language model, trained on thousands of public-domain scores including hymns, string quartets, choral and orchestral works, Renaissance polyphony and chamber music. Each piece is written right here in your browser.

Press Go! to compose your own (choose a genre, key, and period first if you like). Writing takes a minute or so, and the minstrels can start singing as soon as the first bars arrive.

Or open one of the examples.

Tap a singer to put them in the spotlight. The model (about 65 MB) downloads the first time you compose and runs on your device.