\\Computing Counterpoint

How can counterpoint be computed? Instead of looking at counterpoint solely from a historical perspective and reducing it to "music trend of the past", the research contemplates counterpoint as generative technique while exploring its immense yet mechanical creative power through a small selection of case-studies. Finally, a few thoughts are spent on the meaning of rules in music and the role of the computer in historically informed practice is briefly investigated. keywords: counterpoint, computation, computer music, david cope, EMI, Athanasius Kircher, BWV 1087, Bach, Francesco Geminiani, Algorithmic Composition, algorithms, mathematics, canon, bruteforce