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Iannis Xenakis
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computer music, music utilizing digital computers and other electronic data-processing machinery developed about 1948 in application to musical composition and for musical research. The techniques of computer technology permit the indexing of specific genres, or types, of music (such as 16th-century Italian music or the works of a given composer) and have proved useful in the analysis of style, tonal and harmonic structure, and the process of composition. In using a computer as a tool in composition, the composer programs the computer to produce pitches, rhythms, tone colours, and other musical elements and to screen these elements through criteria also ...(100 of 240 words)

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