mess 341 microscopic 阅读理解: axe able to create the database accurately,remember it,and form 第二十九篇 I’ll Be Bach(2014 new musical patterns firom it. 年新文章) Cope built a huge database of Composer David Cope is the existing music. He began with inventor of puter program that hundreds of works by Bach. 1 he writes original works of classical software analyzed the data:it broke music. It took Cope 30 years to it down into smaller pieces and develop the software. Now most looked for patterns. It then people can’ t tell the difference combined the pieces into new between music by the famous patterns. Before long, the program German composer J. S. Bach1 could compose short Bachlike (16851750) and the Bachlike works. They weren’t good,but it compositions from Cope ’ s was a start. computer. Cope knew he had more work It all started in 1980 in the to dohe had a whole opera to write. United States, when Cope was He continued to improve the trying to write an opera. He was software. Soon it could analyze having trouble thinking of new plex music. He also added melodies, so be wrote a computer many other composers, including program to create the melodies. At his own work,to the database. first this music was not easy to A few years later,Cope’s listen to. What did Cope do? He computer program,called“Emmy”, began to rethink how human beings was ready to help him with his compose music. He realized that opera. The process required a lot of composers1 brains work like big collaboration between poser databases. First,they take in all the and Emmy. Cope listened to the music that they have ever heard. computer’s musical ideas and used Then they take out the music that the ones that he liked. With Emmy, they dislike