職稱英語綜合類閱讀理解第二十九篇 I’ll Be Bach

　　I’ll Be Bach

　　1.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. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope’s computer.

　　2. 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 he 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 composers’ 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 are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical patterns from it.

　　3. Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The 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.

　　4. 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.

　　5. A few years later， Cope’s computer program, called “Emmy”，was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot of collaboration between the composer and Emmy. Cope listened to the computer’s musical ideas and used the ones that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Falling, and it was a great success! Cope received some of the best reviews of his career, but no one knew exactly how he had composed the work.

　　6. Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of compositions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn’t like of her music, but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!

　　譯文：

　　我也能成為巴赫

　　作曲家大衛(wèi)•科普發(fā)明了一個(gè)計(jì)算機(jī)軟件，它能編寫出古典音樂的原創(chuàng)作品。科普花了30年才完成這個(gè)軟件�，F(xiàn)在，科普的計(jì)算機(jī)寫出的作品與德國著名作曲家J.S巴赫寫的作品很相似，很少有人能分辨出其中的不同。

　　這一切始于1980年的美國，那時(shí)科普正在寫一部歌劇，但是他無法創(chuàng)作出新的旋律，于是他編寫了一個(gè)計(jì)算機(jī)軟件來幫他編曲。最開始的時(shí)候，軟件寫出的樂曲并不動(dòng)聽�？破帐窃趺醋龅哪�?他開始重新考慮人們作曲的方式。他想到作曲家的大腦就像一個(gè)大數(shù)據(jù)庫，他們先是吸收他們聽過的所有音樂，然后去除他們不喜歡的，最后再根據(jù)留下的音樂來創(chuàng)作出新的旋律�？破照J(rèn)為，只有偉大的作曲家才能建立好的數(shù)據(jù)庫，并且能熟記于心，從而創(chuàng)作出新的音樂。

　　科普根據(jù)現(xiàn)有的音樂建立了龐大的數(shù)據(jù)庫。最開始的時(shí)候，數(shù)據(jù)庫包含了幾百部巴赫的作品。科普的軟件將這些數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行分析：首先它將音樂拆解成小的片段，從中找出固定模式，然后將片段組合成新的模式。不久，這個(gè)軟件就能夠?qū)懗龊桶秃诊L(fēng)格很像的小曲子。它們并不完美，但這只是個(gè)開始。

　　科普知道，他要做的還有很多――他得寫出一整部歌劇。他進(jìn)一步完善他的軟件，不久它就能夠?qū)懗龈鼜?fù)雜的音樂了。他還在數(shù)據(jù)庫中加入了一些其他作曲家的作品，其中也包括他自己的作品。

　　幾年后，科普的軟件“艾米”已經(jīng)能夠幫助他創(chuàng)作歌劇了。創(chuàng)作過程需要作曲家和艾米共同配合。科普聆聽艾米寫出的音樂片段，從中選取他認(rèn)為好的。有了艾米的幫助，科普只用了兩個(gè)星期就完成了這部歌劇，叫作《搖籃墜落》。演出獲得巨大成功，科普也得到了他有生以來最高的評(píng)價(jià)，但是沒有人知道他究竟是怎樣創(chuàng)作出這部歌劇的。

　　從那以后，艾米已經(jīng)寫了上千部作品�？破宅F(xiàn)在依然會(huì)給艾米反饋，告訴她自己哪些音樂是他喜歡的，哪些是不喜歡的，但是現(xiàn)在大部分的工作是由艾米來完成的!

　　練習(xí)：

　　1.The music composed by David cope is about ______.

　　A)Classical music

　　B)pop music

　　C)drama

　　D)country music

　　2.By developing a computer software ，David cope aimed ______.

　　A)　to be like Bach

　　B)　to study Bach

　　C)　to write an opera

　　D)　to create a musical database

　　3.What did cope realize about a great composer’s brain?

　　A)　It works like a big database

　　B) It writes a computer program

　　C)　It can recognize any music patterns

　　D) It can create melodies

　　4.Who is Emmy?

　　A)　a database

　　B)　a computer software

　　C)　a composer who helped David

　　D)　an opera

　　5.We can infer from the passage that ______.

　　A)　David Cope is a computer programmer.

　　B)　David Cope loves music.

　　C)　Bach’s music helped him a lot.

　　D)　Emmy did much more work than a composer.

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