Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style

Preface
The CD
I FUNDAMENTALS
1 Virtual Music
2  Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye–And Doing My Best Not to Flinch
3 Response to Hofstadter
4  Composing Style-SpeciÆc Music
5 The Importance of Patterns
6 Structure
II PROCESSES AND OUTPUT
7 Databases
8 Analysis
9 Themes and Variations
10 Interface
III COMMENTARY
11 Composition, Combinatorics, and Simulation: A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry
12 Experiments in Musical Intelligence and Bach
13 Dear Emmy: A Counterpoint Teacher's Thoughts on the Experiments in Musical Intelligence Program's Two-Part Inventions
14  Who Cares if It Listens? An Essay on Creativity, Expectations, and Computational Modeling of Listening to Music
15 Collision Detection, Muselot, and Scribble: Some ReØections on Creativity
16 A Few Standard Questions and Answers
IV RESPONSE AND PERSPECTIVES
17 Response to Commentaries
18 Perspectives and the Future
Bibliography
APPENDIXES
A Mozart Databases
B An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Movement
C An Experiment in Musical Intelligence: Mozart Reject
D Virtual Music
E The Game Key
Index