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. 2021 Feb 22;12:603752. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.603752

Table 4.

Summary of the free text answers provided by the participants to the four post-task questions regarding the computationally supported task.

Group Questions
What did you like the most about CHAMELEON? What did you like the least about CHAMELEON? What feature of CHAMELEON would you redesign if you had the opportunity? What are your thoughts regarding computational support in music composition after this experience?
Composers The capability of harmonic blending (3), the playback possibility The lack of voice leading (2), the visualization of the produced score (2) Some of the harmonic idioms which are not very convincing style-wise (2), more harmonic styles and scales (2) Mostly for amateurs (2), can save time and provide ideas, computer creates the possibilities among which a composer can select
Students The capability of harmonic blending (8), diverse solutions (5), ease of use-speed-playback (4), gives you ideas (3), saves you time The visualization of the produced score was hard to read (7), the limited harmonic idioms available (5), the resulting harmonizations (4) Increase the available harmonic idioms (6), make scores easier to read (3), include harmonic (2) analysis Can give rise to new ideas (8), can increase productivity (5), can promote creativity (3), music composition should be an exclusively human endeavor (4), useful up to a point (3)

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of participants that provided a similar answer.