Virtual music computer synthesis of musical style - Cope, David (MIT Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-351) and index
1 - Virtual music -- - 2 - Staring Emmy straight in the eye -- and doing my best not to flinch - by Douglas Hofstadter -- - 3 - Response to Hofstadter -- - 4 - Composing style-specific music -- - 5 - The importance of patterns -- - 6 - Structure -- - 7 - Databases -- - 8 - Analysis -- - 9 - Themes and variations -- - 10 - Interface -- - 11 - Composition, combinatorics, and simulation: a historical and philosophical enquiry - by Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- - 12 - Experiments in musical intelligence and Bach - by Bernard Greenberg -- - 13 - Dear Emmy: a counterpoint teacher's thought on the experiments in musical intelligence program's two-part invention - by Steve Larson -- - 14 - Who cares if it listens? an essay on creativity, expectations, and computational modeling of listening to music - by Jonathan Berger -- - 15 - Collision detection, muselot, and scribble: some reflections on creativity - by Daniel Dennett -- - 16 - A few standard questions and answers - by Douglas Hofstadter -- - 17 - Response to commentaries -- - 18 - Perspectives and the future