There may be those who find that the terms music and computing form an unlikely pair. We remind them that the monochord, a device usually associated with music, was one of the first scientific measuring instruments. We need not stop there. In virtually any historical period one finds an interaction between music and science and mathematics. With respect to the seventeenth century, for example, Claude Palisca has observed:
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Allen Forte (1967) studied this question.