1. David S. Prerau, “Computer Pattern Recognition of Standard Engraved Music Notation” (Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970) and David A. Gomberg, “A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing” (D.Sc. dissertation, Sever Institute of Technology of Washington University, 1975). The Gomberg dissertation is discussed in some detail below.
2. Raymond F. Erickson, “Rhythmic Problems and Melodic Structure inOrganum Purum: A Computer-Assisted Study” (Ph.D. dissertation, History of Music, Yale University, 1970) and “A General-purpose System for Computer-aided Musical Studies,”Journal of Music Theory 13, 2 (1969), 276–94.
3. David A. Gomberg,op. cit., 32f.
4. Allen Forte,The Structure of Atonal Music (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).
5. A MIR programming language manual is available from the Department of Music, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. A fairly detailed (although somewhat out-of-date) description is also to be found in Tobias D. Robison, “IML-MIR: A Data-Processing System for the Analysis of Music” inElektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Musikwissenschaft, ed. Harald Heckmann (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1967), 103–35.