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This paper proposes some practices in the field of art music composition. For the type of insights and the approach taken, the theory and practice proposed can only be computational. An introduction to the techniques necessary for the Computer- Aided Algorithm Composition (CAAC) can be found in [5], [1], [10] and [13], with particular reference to Formalized Music by Iannis Xenakis [16].
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Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.
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Scagliola, F. (2012). Towards a Rational Practice of Arithmetic. A Model for Musical (and Multimedia) Composition. In: Emmer, M. (eds) Imagine Math. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2427-4_27
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