Engineering of Music for the Digital Age: Creativity in Musical Composition

Musical scores – like literature, poetry, and technical manuals – are documents. The central tenet of this book is that musical composition in the digital age is a form of document engineering. In essence, music shares with other forms of creative content generation – from poetry to prose, and from science to science fiction – the need for structure, flow, and sources for creativity.

Musical composition is considered in this book as the creative process of engineering musical documents with ...