Index
Table of Contents
Preface
The CD
I Fundamentals 1
1 Virtual Music 3
2 Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye - And Doing My Best Not to Flinch 33
3 Response to Hofstadter 83
4 Composing Style-Specific Music 93
5 The Importance of Patterns 109
6 Structure 127
II Processes and Output 139
7 Databases 141
8 Analysis 147
9 Themes and Variations 153
10 Interface 177
III Commentary 185
11 Composition, Combinatorics, and Simulation: A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry 187
12 Experiments in Musical Intelligence and Bach 221
13 Dear Emmy: A Counterpoint Teacher's Thoughts on the Experiments in Musical Intelligence Program's Two-Part Inventions 237
14 Who Cares if It Listens? An Essay on Creativity, Expectations, and Computational Modeling of Listening to Music 263
15 Collision Detection, Muselot, and Scribble: Some Reflections on Creativity 283
16 A Few Standard Questions and Answers 293
IV Response and Perspectives 307
17 Response to Commentaries 309
18 Perspectives and the Future 323
Bibliography 347
App. A Mozart Databases 355
App. B An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Movement 379
App. C An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Reject 385
App. D Virtual Music 391
App. E The Game Key 559
Index 561