Music composing/ generating tools

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Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system.2 The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). User-interface is the programming language Oz. The results can be output into various formats including MIDI, Csound, and Lilypond.

http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/stras ... index.html


Impro-Visor, a program to help musicians construct melodies similar to ones that might be improvised over given songs. With Impro-Visor, you can playback your melodies as soon as you enter them, with automatically generated rhythm-section accompaniment. In addition to this aural feedback, you can also get visual feedback that will help you learn which notes sound the best over which chords. You can also use Impro-Visor for play-along practice, notation, transcription and song composition.
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/


"MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment" is an accompaniment generator. It creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives.
MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of patterns for various popular rhythms, detailed user manuals, and several demo songs.
MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files which are then played by a sequencer or MIDI file play program.
http://mellowood.ca/mma/

Amuc (the Amsterdam Music Composer) is an audio application for composing and playing music.
http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html