Algorithmic composition paradigms of automated music generation /

Algorithmic composition - composing by means of formalizable methods - has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way rather than by treating formalizable as...

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Main Author: Nierhaus, Gerhard.
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer, ©2009.
Wien ; New York : [2009]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations, music.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Historical development of algorithmic procedures
  • Markov models
  • Generative grammars
  • Transition networks
  • Chaos and self-similarity
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Cellular automata
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Final synopsis.