Description-Based Design of Melodies

摘要

Most current approaches in computer-aided composition (CAC) are based on an explicit construction paradigm: users build musical objects by assembling components using various construction tools. Virtually all technologies developed by computer science and artificial intelligence have been applied to CAC, thereby progressively increasing the sophistication of music-composition tools. Composers can choose between many programming paradigms to express the compositions they "have in mind," from the now-standard time-lined sequencers (e.g., Steinberg's Cubase) to advanced programming languages or libraries (e.g., OpenMusic; Assayag et al. 1999).