The Expression of Aesthetic Principles as Syntactic Structures and Heuristic Preferences and Constraints in a Computer Program that Composes Jazz Improvisations

Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

Volume

Papers from the 1993 AAAI Spring Symposium

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A computational method of synthesising contemporary jazz melodies over a harmonic base is described. The method implements certain aesthetic principles of musical composition in the forms of constraints upon phrasing patterns and of context-sensitive probabilistic preferences in choosing note durations and pitches.