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Method of automatically confirming the uniqueness of digital pieces of music produced by an automated music composition and generation system while satisfying the creative intentions of system users

Abstract:

A method of automatically confirming the uniqueness of digital pieces of music produced by an automated music composition and generation system while satisfying the creative intentions of system users. The method involves reviewing, selecting and providing one or more musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters, to an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to the system user interface. The automated music composition and generation engine includes a music piece analysis subsystem for automatically examining each piece of composed music that has been generated by said automated music composition and generation engine, comparing the digital piece of composed and generated music against other digital pieces of music composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation system for said system user, and determining whether or not the examined digital piece of composed and generated music is sufficiently unique. Also, the method automatically confirms with the system user that each examined digital piece of composed and generated music satisfies the creative intentions of the system user.