Summary: | Explores expert systems for music applications of artificial intelligence (AI), proceeding from basic principles of knowledge-based programming to concepts and strategies for programming these systems. Offers a universal data model for music analysis and examples of design and application, and investigates Prolog, a widely used computer language for AI. Designed for musicians at every level and for those involved in courses in computer-music programming. Assumes a basic understanding of computers and computer programming. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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