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List of pre-digital generative models for music

Many of the following treatises have been listed in Stephen A. Hedges 1978 article Dice Music in the Eighteenth Century, available on JSTOR.

Printed sources

Title Composer Publisher Year Digital document Digital Implementation
A New Way of Making Foure Parts in Counterpoint Thomas Campion John Playford, London 1615, (reprint 1671) IMSLP Nicholas Cornia
Musurgiae Mirifica (from Musurgia Universalis) Athanasius Kircher Francesco Corbelletti, Rome 1650 IMSLP Andrew A. Cashner
Der allezeit fertige polonoisen- und menüettencomponist Johann Philipp Kirnberger Winter, Berlin 1757 IMSLP Nicholas Cornia
Einfall einen doppelten Contrapunct in der Octave von 6 Tacten zu machen (from Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik, volume 3) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin 1757 Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Nicholas Cornia
Ludus Melothedicus ou le jeu de dez harmonique Anonymous de la Chevadière, Paris 1758 IMSLP Nicholas Cornia
A Tabular System Whereby the Art of Composing Minuets Is made so Easy... Piere Hoegi Welcker, London 1763 British Library
Table pour composer des Menuets et des Trios à l'infini Maximilian Stadler Wenck, Paris 1780 IMSLP Denis Lorrain
Musikalische Würfel-Spiel Journal des Luxus und der Modern (1787, February) Weimar 1787, February Thuringian State and University Library Jena
Gioco Filharmonico Joseph Haydn (attributed) Marescalchi, Naples 1793 Biblioteca Nacional Portugal Nicholas Cornia
Anleitung so viel Walzer oder Schleifer mit zwei Würfeln zu componiren... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (attributed) Simrock, Bonn and Hummel, Berlin c.1790 IMSLP Nicholas Cornia (country dances), Abjad (waltzes)
Au plus heureux jeux harmonique Francesco Pasquale Ricci Ricci, ? 18th century
Gioco Pitagorico Musicale Antonio Calegari Valle, Venice 1801 Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello Nicholas Cornia
Barême musical, ou l'Art de composer la musique sans en connaître les principes Gioseffo Catrufo (attributed) D. Colas, Paris 1811 Gallica Nicholas Cornia, see implementation of Andrea Mangeruva's Nuovo metodo
Le Tôton harmonique ou nouveau jeu de hazard E.F. de Lange J. Desoer, Liège 19th century Gallica
Kaleidakunstikon, en musikalsk Underholdning for Claveerspillere Frederik Kuhlau Lose, Copenhagen c.1820 Royal Danish Library Nicholas Cornia
Kunst, Schottische Tënze zu componiren, ohne musicalisch zu sein Gustav Gerlach Lischke, Berlin c.1830 Bavarian State Library
Nuovo Metodo per Comporre Migliaja di Walser Andrea Mangeruva Roberti, Palermo 1839 Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello Nicholas Cornia
The Quadrille Melodist John Clinton E. Butler, London 1865 British Library

Manuscript sources

Title Composer Period Digital document Digital Implementation
Cabala per componendi minuetti Johann Philipp Kirnberger 18th century Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Mus.Hs.19102
Tavola per la cabala Bernardo Ottani 18th century Biblioteca Casanatense, MS MUS 5989
Musicalische Cabala Franciscus Schola 1773 Bibliothèque nationale de France, RES VMB MS-103
Musikalisches Würfelspiel Anonymous 18th century Händel-Haus Halle, AS-Römhild-Konvolut A 1