Experiments in musical intelligence Book

In this book David Cope develops ideas and concepts he already outlined in Computers and Musical Style (DAS 6), and describes the basic principles of analysis, pattern matching, object oreintation, and natural language process. Copye's system makes it possible to generate new compositions in the styles of various composers, from Back and Mozart to Prokovkiev and Scott Joplin. The accompany CD-ROM contains the doce and documentation for the program SARA (Simple Analytic Recombniant Algorithm), which produced new compositions in the styl of the music in its database. The new introduction includes a detailed discussion of the new CD-ROM and how to use his Recipe for keeping the programming fresh and up to date. Contents Background and Overview The Analysis Component The Pattern-Matching Component The Object System The ATN Component An Application-Level Program and Sample Output Conclusions and the Future