Leland Smith - Editing and Printing Music by Computer (1973)

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Leland Smith - Editing and Printing Music by Computer (1973)

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A white paper that appeared in Journal of Music Theory vol. 17 iss. 2, 1973.
An interesting historical record in the development of computerized notation.
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And a preceding letter, the Issue earlier.
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Re: Leland Smith - Editing and Printing Music by Computer (1973)

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Interesting! Looks like MSS basically became SCORE. The parameter structure changed a bit from MSS to SCORE, but SCORE also held all the properties of any element in terms of "P values." Here are the first few parameters in SCORE 3.0.
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He's indeed a genius!
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