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The SCORE music printing system is intended to facilitate the creation of virtually any page of standard music notation with a final quality equal to that of true engraving. Most of the shapes used in music printing are found in the SCORE drawing library. Any unusual musical symbols may be added to the library.

The SCORE program had its origins in research done by Leland C. Smith, Professor of Music, at the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, starting in 1967. Over about a six year period, most of work was done at the off-campus lab site which was located very near to the famous San Andreas earthquake fault line. The earliest form of SCORE was created for the purpose of entering complex musical data into the MUSIC-5 digital sound generating system. The group involved in the digital music project, John Chowning, Leland Smith and David Poole, went on to found the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics -- CCRMA.

Score Preview (SCORPREV 3.11SP) is a shareware Viewer for Score Music Files. Score Preview is a DOS program designed for screen viewing, playing through a standard MIDI system, and PostScript printing of pages of music prepared by the Score music publishing system. A utility for dot matrix printers (IBM Proprinter or EPSON format) is available from San Andreas Press

Score is the creation of Leland Smith, lifetime professional musician and Professor Emeritus of Music at Stanford University. It is the original fully computerized music printing system. The first printings from Score appeared in 1971. The program has been running on the PC platforms since 1986. Score is now being used by most of the world's leading music publishers.