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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:59:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu> <jakobs.728043779@utrurt>
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- In article <jakobs.728043779@utrurt> jakobs@utrurt.uni-trier.de (Oliver Jakobs) writes:
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- >In <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu> behrens@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eric Behrens) writes:
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- >>But music has only a dozen words in its vocabulary (notes of the scale) and
- >>the English language has tens of thousands. I cannot believe that computer
- >>science is capable of replicating the intricate constructions of language.
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- >I'd say the analogy is not of the right order. I've heard that scales are
- >more like phonemes or letters, and that there are groups or patterns of
- >scales which could be regarded as ``words of music''. There has been done
- >some work trying to apply linguistic knowledge to musical ``texts''. I don't
- >remember the scientist's name, but I could look up some references if someone
- >was interested.
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- >Oliver
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- I'd also say that a musical note is more akin to a letter or phoneme, and to
- continue the analogy, a chord would be a word, one or two bars would be a
- phrase, and a few bars would be a sentence. Then you go on to paragraphs,
- which would be like a verse in a song, and chapters, like one movement of a
- symphony, etc etc etc
- And of course there's intonation/instrumentation to cope with
- Actually, Occam wore a beard: philosophers kept borrowing his razor
- Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033
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