I have written up a bunch of resources that I would like to check out.
People
Professor Nakra
Dan Shiffman
David Cope
Books
Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automated Music Generation – Very detailed
Algorithmic Composition – A Guide to Composing Music with Nyquist – Goes over many concepts, but seems to focus on Nyquist
The Algorithmic Composer – An older book, but appears to be a good introduction
Resources
MIDI – For containing the data of existing music scores
LISP – A programming language
Nyquist – A programming language based on LISP
MaxMSP – A programming language created for music applications
Java – A programming language that I am familiar with
Python – A programming language that I am familiar with
C++ – A programming language that I am familiar with
Articles
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/spobooks/bbv9810.0001.001