Title: Composition by Conversation,
Abstract: Most musical programming languages are developed purely for coding virtual
instruments or algorithmic compositions. Although there has been some work in
the domain of musical query languages for music information retrieval, there
has been little attempt to unify the principles of musical programming and
query languages with cognitive and natural language processing models that
would facilitate the activity of composition by conversation. We present a
prototype framework, called MusECI, that merges these domains, permitting
score-level algorithmic composition in a text editor while also supporting
connectivity to existing natural language processing frameworks.