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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| SAL | |
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| Lisp | |
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| Nyquist | |
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| The Nyquist Integrated Development Environment | |
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| Algorithmic Composition | |
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| Additional References | |
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| The History and Philosophy of Algorithmic Composition | |
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| The Process of Algorithmic Composition | |
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| A Brief History of Algorithmic Processes Applied to Music Composition | |
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| Aesthetics of Algorithmic Composition | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Introduction to SAL | |
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| Data | |
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| Running Nyquist | |
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| SAL Expressions | |
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| Functions | |
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| Predicates | |
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| User-Defined Functions | |
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| Getting Help | |
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| Programming Errors | |
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| Error Messages | |
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| Stack Traces | |
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| Printing | |
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| Programming and Nyquist | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Nyquist Instruments | |
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| Nyquist Scores | |
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| Variables | |
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| Score Processing | |
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| Introduction to Algorithmic Composition | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Pitch and Rhythm Notation | |
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| Pattern Objects and Item Streams | |
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| A Complete Example | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Printing, Reading, and Debugging | |
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| print Command | |
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| format Command | |
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| display Command | |
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| Debugging with #display and #print | |
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| Tracing Pattern Evaluation | |
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| Reading Data from the Computer Keyboard | |
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| Variable Assignment and Scoping | |
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| set Command | |
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| begin, end, and with | |
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| score-gen and Local Variables | |
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| Combining with and score-gen | |
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| Understanding Variable Scope in SAL | |
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| Increment, Decrement, and Other Operators | |
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| Assigning Local Variables Interactively | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Conditionals | |
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| if Command | |
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| #? Special Form | |
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| Using if with begin-end | |
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| Using Conditionals in Algorithmic Composition | |
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| Conditionals vs. Formulas | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Sets and Tables | |
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| Introduction to Set Theory | |
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| List and Set Operations | |
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| Tables | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Functional Programming | |
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| Introduction to Functional Programming | |
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| Mapping a Function over a List | |
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| Using the score-apply Function | |
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| Recursion | |
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| Introduction to Recursion | |
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| Single-Test Tail Recursion | |
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| List-Cons'ing Recursion | |
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| Conditional Augmenting Tail Recursion | |
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| Double-Test Tail Recursion | |
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| Multiple Recursion | |
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| Tracing Function Evaluation | |
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| SAL Is Recursive | |
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| Using Recursive Forms in Nyquist | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Iteration | |
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| The loop Command with a for-below Clause | |
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| The Full Story of for-below | |
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| Iterating over the Elements of a List | |
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| Using return in a loop | |
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| The for-then Clause | |
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| Loops with while and until | |
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| Reading and Writing Records Using Iteration | |
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| score-gen as Iteration | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Algorithmic Composition Using Probabilistic Methods | |
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| Introduction to Probability | |
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| The random Pattern | |
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| Graphs and Patterns | |
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| The markov Pattern Generator | |
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| Patterns Can Specify Next States and Weights | |
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| Learning a Markov Process | |
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| 1/f<sup>2</sup> Noise or Brownian Motion | |
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| 1/f Noise | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Hierarchical and Recursive Musical Structure | |
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| Structure from Nested Patterns | |
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| Hierarchy in Scores | |
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| Encapsulation | |
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| Compositional Environments | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Composing Sonic Microstructure and Macrostructure | |
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| Sound Synthesis in Nyquist | |
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| A Pattern-Driven Sound Generator | |
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| Nyquist Sounds and Scores | |
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| Nyquist Sounds and Global Control Functions | |
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| Scores and Global Control Functions | |
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| Further Explorations | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Extended Examples s | |
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| Jellyfish Music Example | |
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| Orchestration | |
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| Text to Music | |
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| Suggested Listening | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendix SAL Commands and Functions | |
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| Commands | |
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| Functions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Discography | |
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| Index | |