Computer - Aided Musical Imagination Eduardo

Music is generally associated with the artistic expression of emotions, but it is clear that reason plays an important role in music making. For example, the ability to recognise musical patterns and to make structural abstractions and associations requires sophisticated memory mechanisms, involving the conscious manipulation of concepts and subconscious access to intuitive knowledge. One of the finest examples of early rational approaches to music composition appeared in the eleventh century, when Guido d’Arezzo proposed a lookup chart for assigning pitch to the syllables of religious hymns. He also invented the musical stave for systematic notation of music and established the medieval music scales known as the church modes.