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This chapter introduces music programming systems, beginning with a historical perspective of their development leading to the appearance of Csound. Its direct predecessors, MUSIC I-IV, MUSIC 360 and MUSIC 11, as well as the classic MUSIC V system, are discussed in detail. Following this, we explore the history of Csound and its evolution leading to the current version. Concepts such as unit generators, instruments, compilers, function tables and numeric scores are introduced as part of this survey of music programming systems.

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  1. Department of Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland

    Victor Lazzarini

  2. Department of Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland

    Steven Yi

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath, UK

    John ffitch

  4. Institut für Neue Musik, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Joachim Heintz

  5. Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Øyvind Brandtsegg

  6. Berlin, Germany

    Iain McCurdy

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Lazzarini, V., Yi, S., ffitch, J., Heintz, J., Brandtsegg, Ø., McCurdy, I. (2016). Music Programming Systems. In: Csound. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45370-5_1

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