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Composer 1 germson I’llBeBach tothecomputer’smusicalideasandusedtheones Composer David Cope is the inventor of a that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took computerprogram that writes original works of onlytwo weeks to finish. It was called Cradle classicalmusic. It took Cope 30years todevelop Falling,anditwas agreatsuccess!Copereceived the software. Now most people can’t tell the someofthebestreviewsofhiscareer,butnoone difference between musicby the famous German knewexactlyhowhehadcomposedthework. composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Since that first opera, Emmy has written Bach-likecompositionsfromCope’scomputer. thousandsof compositions. Cope still gives It all started in 1980 in the United States, Emmyfeedbackonwhathelikesanddoesn’tlike whenCope was trying to write an opera. He was of her music, but she is doing most of the hard having trouble thinking of newmelodies, so he workofcomposingthesedays! wroteacomputerprogramtocreatethemelodies. 词汇： At firstthismusicwasnot easyto listento.What original/ə r d ənəl/adj．有独创性的 did Cope do? He began to rethink howhuman collaboration/kə laelig;bə re ən/n．合 beings compose music. He realized that 作 composers brainsworklikebigdatabases.First, review/r vju:/n ， ．评论 they take in all the music that they have ever feedback/fi:dbaelig;k/n．反馈 heard. Then they take outthe music that they 注释 dislike.Finally,theymakenewmusic fromwhat J.S.Bach约翰 塞巴斯蒂安 巴赫（德语：• • Johann is left.According to Cope, only the great SebastianBach，1685年3 31 日一1750年7 composers are able to create the 28 日），巴洛克时期的德国作曲家，杰出的 databaseaccurately, remember it, and form new 管风琴、小提琴、大键琴演奏家，同作曲家亨 musicalpatternsfromit. 德尔和泰勒曼齐名。巴赫被普遍认为是音乐史 Copebuiltahugedatabaseofexistingmusic.He 上最重要的作曲家之一，并被尊称为“西方‘现 beganwith hundreds of wo