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We describe a series of experiments in generating traditional musical harmony using Genetic Algorithms. We discuss some problems which are specific to the musical domain, and conclude that a GA with no notion of metalevel control of the reasoning process is unlikely to solve the harmonisation problem well.
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Phon-Amnuaisuk, S., Tuson, A., Wiggins, G. (1999). Evolving Musical Harmonisation. In: Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6384-9_39
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