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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 15 , Issue 11 (November 1972) table of contents

Pages: 1000 - 1001

Year of Publication: 1972

ISSN:0001-0782

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Stephen W. Smoliar

Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

J.A. Moorer's “Music and Computer Composition” [1] was a distressing communication. While I realize that musical expertise is probably beyond the realm of the editorial staff, I must object to both the naiveté and faulty reasoning on the musical side of this article. In a nutshell, Moorer presents us with many paragraphs of philosophical meanderings to back up a few results which are, by his own admission, inadequate. From this he concludes, “It is also hoped that this experiment may help dispel doubts that musical composition is ‘sacred’ and unreachable by mechanical methods.” From any serious musical point of view, such a conclusion is almost vacuous.

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	1	James Anderson Moorer, Music and computer composition, Communications of the ACM, v.15 n.2, p.104-113, Feb. 1972 [doi>10.1145/361254.361265]
	2	Smoliar, Stephen W. A parallel processing model of musical structures. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1971.
	1	Schoenberg, A. Models for Beginners in Composition.
	2	Schoenberg, A. Fundamentals of Musical Compositon.

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Keywords:
artificial intelligence, computer composition, computer music, heuristic programming, models of cognitive processes, music theory

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