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Article: Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
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- September 1, 1997
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David Cope is perhaps the most successful of the many scholars who have worked in the area of computer-assisted style synthesis. Cope begins his latest book with an interesting discussion of the history of recombinant approaches to musical composition, from Athanasius Kircher's ars combinatoria (1650) through the eighteenth-century dice games of Johann Philipp Kirnberger, C. P. E. Bach, and others. He goes on to consider musical borrowings found in works by Muzio Clementi and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as more subtle correspondences among works by a number of composers. One presumes that the purpose of this opening discussion is to provide historical justification for his ...