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Computational Creativity and Music

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In this chapter, I first define the word ‘creativity’ for the purposes of my research and then compare this definition to others found in the literature. Following this, I present two simple examples of creativity involving games—words and chess—in which I invite readers to participate. I then describe two musical situations and subsequent computer programs that, following the discussion surrounding the examples, creatively provide output as tentative proof of their success. Finally, I describe ways this software can be improved to output more elegant results.

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  1. University of California, Santa Crus, CA

    David Cope

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Tarek R. Besold

  2. IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

    Marco Schorlemmer

  3. CISA, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Alan Smaill

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Cope, D. (2015). Computational Creativity and Music. In: Besold, T., Schorlemmer, M., Smaill, A. (eds) Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 7. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-085-0_15

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