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Bach in a box: the evolution of four part Baroque harmony using thegenetic algorithm
McIntyre, R.A.
2151 Oakley Ave., Menlo Park, CA, USA;

This paper appears in: Evolutionary Computation, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on
Publication Date: 27-29 Jun 1994
On page(s): 852-857 vol.2
Meeting Date: 06/27/1994 - 06/29/1994
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
ISBN: 0-7803-1899-4
References Cited: 5
INSPEC Accession Number: 4812388
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICEC.1994.349943
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06

Abstract
The space of all possible musical compositions given the constraints of the standard Western tonal and rhythmic system is uncountably vast. We look at a small subsection of this space: Baroque harmony. The rules governing Baroque harmony have been carefully laid out by musical scholars, and the size of this search space becomes tractable if we are given a melody and a key signature to work with. Music is easily represented in numerical form, and is thus an obvious candidate for computer manipulation. We investigate a system using the genetic algorithm that is capable of generating well constructed Baroque-style harmonies given a user-defined melody

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