Courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives Within a few years, Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson had programmed the computer to generate music for a string-quartet and so the Illiac Suite of 1957 has the distinction of being the first example of computer-aided composition.īy the start of the 1960s, Hiller had modified a Musicwriter™ music typewriter, so that it could be controlled by the ILLIAC mainframe with batch instructions. Weighing two tons, it could hold a massive 5.12 Kilobytes in memory, with storage of 64 Kb. In 1952, the University of Illinois built ILLIAC I, the first computer at a US educational establishment. But almost as soon as there were computers, people were figuring out how to use them for creating and printing music. Mainframes and musicīefore the personal computer revolution of the late 1970s, computers were so large and so expensive that they could only be found in universities and government departments. In this article, we’ll summarize that history and explore a few key moments that led us to where we are today in the field. Sometimes, though, it’s easy to forget that the computer-aided portion of the history book spans back a good long time, too. Music engraving, as we all know, dates back well before the computer age. Subscribe: Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pandora | PocketCasts | Podchaser | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInĪt Scoring Notes, we usually cover the latest products and news about music notation software and related technology. Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 37:59
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