CommonMusic

[tkunze@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Tobias Kunze)]

I've placed a new release of CommonMusic on 

ftp.digitool.com:~ftp/pub/mcl/contrib:

-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      staff       8306 Mar 29 02:43 CommonMusic-README.txt
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CommonMusic.sea.bin is in MacBinaryII, CommonMusic.sea.hqx in
BinHex4.0 format. 



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Common Music (CM) is a music composition environment that
supports both algorhythmic and non-algorithmic styles of music
composition.  It produces musical output for a number of
widely avaiable synthesis programs, languages and protocols
such as MIDI, CSound, Common Lisp Music (CLM), Music Kit,
CMix, CMusic, RT, Mix and Common Music Notation (CMN). 

Fundamental to the system is the definition of musical
concepts such as scores, parts, scales, notes, rhythms,
dynamics, musical patterns, envelopes, algorithms,
generators, etc,  as "compositional objects".  These may be
used directly by the composer or else further specialized,
according to the individual needs of each composer. CM
encourages user extensions to both its classification scheme
and to the pre-defined objects provided by the system.

Common Music is implemented in Common Lisp and CLOS, and runs
on a number of commonly available computers such as NeXT,
Macintosh, SGI, SUN, and 386/Windows.  On the Macintosh,
Common Music comes with a graphic front end called Capella. 

All ports of the system come with an command line editor
called Stella that faciliates interaction with the system.

Source code to Common Music is available free of charge via
anonymous ftp on ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu:/pub/Lisp/cm.* and
ftp.zkm.de:/pub/cm.*