Algorithmic Composition Paradigms of Automated Music Generation /

• Main Author: Nierhaus, Gerhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2009.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Music.; Application software.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Algorithms.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

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...

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.