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  1. David S. Prerau, “Computer Pattern Recognition of Standard Engraved Music Notation” (Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970) and David A. Gomberg, “A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing” (D.Sc. dissertation, Sever Institute of Technology of Washington University, 1975). The Gomberg dissertation is discussed in some detail below.

  2. Raymond F. Erickson, “Rhythmic Problems and Melodic Structure inOrganum Purum: A Computer-Assisted Study” (Ph.D. dissertation, History of Music, Yale University, 1970) and “A General-purpose System for Computer-aided Musical Studies,”Journal of Music Theory 13, 2 (1969), 276–94.

  3. David A. Gomberg,op. cit., 32f.

  4. Allen Forte,The Structure of Atonal Music (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).

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  5. A MIR programming language manual is available from the Department of Music, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. A fairly detailed (although somewhat out-of-date) description is also to be found in Tobias D. Robison, “IML-MIR: A Data-Processing System for the Analysis of Music” inElektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Musikwissenschaft, ed. Harald Heckmann (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1967), 103–35.

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  6. Some of the project’s problems are discussed in Arthur Mendel, “Some Preliminary Attempts at Computer-Assisted Style Analysis in Music,”Computers and the Humanities 4, 1 (1969), 41–52. More recent progress is detailed in “Princeton Computer Tools for Musical Research,”Informatique et Sciences Humaines, Numéro 19 (1973).

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A version of this paper was read at ICCH/2 held at the University of Southern California in April 1975.

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Erickson, R.F. “The Darms project”: A status report. Comput Hum 9, 291–298 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02396292

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