Music composition engineering: new approaches to composers' training

Before the 20th century, training in music composition used historically formed rules, methods and techniques requiring fundamental music education. Substantial changes in musical art at the turn of the 20th century initiated searches for new music composition forms using engineering modelling methods based on advanced technologies. Reviewing the path along which musical art moved in the 20th and the first quarter of the 21st centuries, the authors attempt to analyse the character of the modern composer's education today. This paper proposes a linear approach to this phenomenon to trace all stages in the development of modern art, from simple numerical calculations to the use of neural networks for music composition. Increasingly popular composition techniques, employing computers instead of humans, have sparked a dilemma for music composition training, which requires making a choice between traditional professional education and music engineering. Although the above problems can only be solved with time, this research work allows the hope that composition methods, despite the increasingly heavy use of computer technology, will not turn into uncreative generation of tones by preset algorithms, which would inevitably result in the lack of any sparks of inspiration that fill the music with aesthetics and emotions.