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Musical Composition as anJames L. Alty Department of Computer Science Loughborough University Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK 1. IntroductionThose who are not primarily concerned with artistic creative endeavour often view the creative process involved in, say, the writing of a poem or of a piece of music as a somewhat mystical process. Themes and even whole works are thought of as emerging in a semi-uncontrolled fashion, and at unplanned times, on the unsuspecting artist. The reality is somewhat different. There are, of course, times when inspiration will suddenly direct an artist in a particular path, or present a solution piecemeal to a compositional problem, but much of artistic endeavour is carefully planned, and artists and composers who do not approach their art systematically, often produce works which are fault ridden and inconsistent. It is the objective of this paper to provide an insight into the musical compositional process and to point out that much of this process has its parallels in Engineering Design. Engineers, usually, are involved in creating an artefact ñ they are producing a practical solution to a problem. Scientists on the other hand are mainly concerned with satisfying curiosity. The musical compositional process is therefore much nearer to Engineering. A product is being designed. Since the paper is aimed primarily at engineers and scientists, musicians may occasionally need to forgive some oversimplifications. 2. What is Musical Composition? 4. The Initial Compositional Constraints 6. The development of the initial A theme. 7. The A Theme Repeat 10. Repeat of Theme A 11. Introduction of Theme C 13. Conclusionsto the paper |