One problem exists, however. When the person who composed the music is playing it back on the program, the play back instrument is limited to the piano. Sooner or later, however this will change. The next help that a computer can provide in the arts is sculpture. Before a person attempts to create a sculpture, he or she could use a program of virtual reality.
Virtual reality is a three-dimensional world that has interaction with the user.
If someone was planning to make a sculptured vase, the person could use a mouse to draw a picture of the proposed design, or possibly use an optical scanner to display a picture of it on the screen. The image would be 3-D and rotate on an axis showing all the aspects of the vase. For just painting, a person could use Microsoft Windows with the Paintbrush application. This is a normal drawing program that has many different colors to paint the image and has many types of lines, geometric figures, and words to use with the drawings. If animation is what someone is looking for, the Shareware program, The Draw, is a program to try.