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I agree with what Mike says - given a score and recordings of that score by different musicians, a library of "performer nuances" could be built up and then added to the playback of software like Finale or Sibelius.
There is a problem in naming these nuances - a problem already encountered by wine tasters who have had to develop and standardize a new vocabulary. Think of it - if Finale listed several hundred playback nuances, and you could click on a new menu to select one just as you now can select a fermata or staccato, it would be both powerful and cumbersome. So probably some type of AI program would be needed to assist the "composer".
Once the analysis of music gets going, why stop at just performance nuances? A further step is just to ask the computer to write a symphony in A minor with 40% the style of Sibelius and 60% the style of Berlioz with a series of options presented for the details.
I can see music in the future dividing into two forms: one akin to TV dinners (the computer AI generated variety), and one akin to home cooking (composed by a human with limited computer assistance).
I wonder if a generation raised on mp3 quality sound will care about nuances?
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