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2014年一级建造师、二级建造师、咨询、监理、环评、招标、造价工程师、 职称英语、公路造价等考试启动中…有需要请联系 QQ：1360362824 扫一扫，或添加微信号 xinsiwei_edu 课程押题更新，微信通知！ 阅读理解： 第二十九篇 I’ll Be Bach （2014 年新文章） Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people can’t tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach1 (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope’s computer. It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so be wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers1 brains work like big databases. First,they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope ，only the great composers axe able to create the database accurately,remember it,and form new musical patterns firom it. Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. 1 he software analyzed the data ： it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They weren’t good,but it was a start. Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyze more complex music. He also added many other composers， including his own work,to the database. A few years later ，Cope’s computer program,called “Emmy”，was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot