Reading Assignments
220B: Modeling Creativity - Winter Quarter, 1999
Assignment 1: Submit one page summery of the following paper.
Submission date: Feb. 8
(Week 5).
- D.E. Rumelhart and G.E. Hinton and R. J. Williams - Learning Internal Representation
by Error Propagation, in PDP: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Vol. 1, 1989,
ch. 8, pp. 318-362.
Assignment 2: Choose one of the papers from the following list and submit one page
of summery and criticism. Include musical examples and be ready for short presentation of the
paper in front of the class.
Submission date: March 1, (Week 8).
- Dalia cohen & Roni Granot - Constant and Variable Influences on Stages of Musical
Activities, in Journal of new Music Research, Vol. 24, 1995, pp. 197-229.
- Eugene Narmour - The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Systems of Musical Implication:
Building on Meyer's Theory of Emotional syntax, in Music Perception, Vol. 9(1), 1991,
pp. 1-26.
- Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff - An Overview of Hierarchical Structure in Music,
in Machine Models of Music, ch. 13.
- Ray Jackendoff - Musical Parsing and Musical Affect, in Music Perception Vol 9(2),
1991.
- David Cope - A Computer Model of Music Composition, in Machine Models of Music,
ch. 18.
- Kemal Ebcioglu - An Expert System for Harmonizing Four-Part Chorales, in Machine
Models of Music, ch. 17.
Other titles of papers will be added soon to the list
Papers that are not in the list should be confirmed by the instructor.