Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style
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Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer
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Year 2004
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Table of contents :
Cover ... 1
Preface ... 2
The CD ... 5
I Fundamentals ... 8
Chap1 - Virtual Music ... 9
Chap2 - Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye -- And Doing My Best Not to Flinch ... 39
Chap3 - Response to Hofstadter ... 89
Chap4 - Composing Style-Specific Music ... 99
Chap5 - The Importance of Patterns ... 115
Chap6 - Structure ... 132
II Processes and Output ... 143
Chap7 - Databases ... 144
Chap8 - Analysis ... 150
Chap9 - Themes and Variations ... 155
Chap10 - Interface ... 178Black,
III Commentary ... 185Black,
Chap11 - Composition, Combinatorics, and Simulation: A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry ... 187
Chap12 - Experiments in Musical Intelligence and Bach ... 220
Chap13 - Dear Emmy: A Counterpoint Teacher's Thought on the Experiments in Musical Intelligence Program's Two-Part Invention ... 235
Chap14 - Who Cares if It Listens? An Essay on Creativity, Expectations, and Computational Modeling of Listening to Music ... 261
Chap15 - Collision Detection, Muselot, and Scribble: Some Reflections on Creativity ... 280
Chap16 - A Few Standard Questions and Answers ... 289
IV Responses and Perspectives ... 302
Chap17 - Response to Commentaries ... 303
Chap18 - Perspectives and the Future ... 317
Bibliography ... 340Black,
AppendixA - Mozart Databases ... 345
AppendixB - An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Movement ... 368
AppendixC - An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Reject ... 373
AppendixD - Virtual Music ... 379
AppendixE - The Game Key ... 546
Index ... 547