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SibDemo/Read?Me/Reviews/Times?2
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| Filename: | SibDemo/Read?Me/Reviews/Times?2 |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0343 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
The Times (London) 31 January 1996, leader column on editorial page (Excerpts from a longer article) A BRITISH INVENTION TAKES THE MICROCHIP TO MOZART Do re mi fa, eureka! Two British inventors, Jonathan and Ben Finn, have dreamt up something which might one day do for music what the word-processor has done for language. As our Arts Editor writes on page 33 [see Times 3 file], the brothers have devised a computer program which can notate, print and play a musical score at a pace even more rapid than Mozart at his most fecund... Imagine what wonders Bach could have worked with such technology; or Richard Strauss, or Britten. Or the composer of Finlandia himself, from whom the program takes its name.. Today we salute the Finns. Their 'garden shed' has yielded up a device to which the musical world should be indebte���
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