Resurrecting Score11 in Siren: What ever happened to the 1980s score languages?

Stephen Travis Pope

Keywords: Smalltalk, music, parsers, real-time

TL;DR: A Smalltalk interpreter for the 1980s music input language "Score11" has been developed and tested and it's great.

Abstract: This paper describes a “software archaeology” project in which a new interpreter was created for the Score11 music representation, a popular 1980s music input language that was frequently used with the Music11 non-real-time software sound synthesis package. The new version runs within the Smalltalk-based Siren system, a library of software classes for music representation, algorithmic composition and live interactive performance. The project background is given, and the port of Score11 to the Siren environment is described and evaluated.