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Musicologists and composers have long been interested in the possible application of computer technology to problems in music both as a scholarly discipline and as an art. Composers were first to experiment with computers as an adjunct to the world of music, one of the early notable experimental composers being Lejaren Hiller of the University of Illinois, whose work became widely known about ten years ago; other prominent musicians using computer technology include Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, and Iannis Xenakis) Musicologists followed suit, hoping to find through computers aid in problems of bibliographic control--at present lacking to a distressing degree in this discipline--and in style analysis, an area in which computer assistance promises to become an invaluable addition to traditional scholarly procedures. Many computeroriented bibliographic techniques already proved in other disciplines, e.g, literature and languages, promise relatively easy adaptation in some respects and problematical in others, notably the thorny problem of representing musical themes. Persons of note in the United States who are working, and with considerable success, in bibliographic and thematic problems include Barry Brook (Queens College), Jan La Rue (New
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