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Leland Smith (Leland Clayton Smith) was born on 6 August, 1925 in Oakland, California, is an American musician, teacher, and designer of music engraving program. Discover Leland Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Leland Clayton Smith
Occupation Musician Teacher Computer scientist
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 6 August, 1925
Birthday 6 August
Birthplace Oakland, California
Date of death 17 December, 2013
Died Place Palo Alto, California
Nationality United States

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1925

Leland Clayton Smith (August 6, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American musician, teacher and computer scientist.

He taught at Stanford University for 34 years, and developed the music engraving tool SCORE.

Smith was born in Oakland, California, United States.

Showing an early interest in music, after four years of initial study with local teachers he took private lessons in counterpoint, orchestration and composition with Darius Milhaud, who lived near the Smith family.

1943

Smith continued studying with Milhaud for two years till he was old enough to join the United States Navy in 1943.

1946

On leaving the Navy in 1946, he studied for a baccalaureate and master's degree in composition under Roger Sessions at University of California, Berkeley, and then went to Paris to study under Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire in 1948-9.

Returning to America, he worked predominantly as a bassoonist in New York, but also took occasional work with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and New York City Ballet.

1951

He also assisted Milhaud as a teaching assistant at Mills College from 1951-2.

1952

Accepting a teaching position at University of Chicago in 1952, Smith taught there till 1958 when he moved to a teaching and research position at Stanford University.

After six years of teaching harmonic analysis and composition at Stanford, Smith won a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a year in Paris.

1965

Returning to Stanford in 1965, Smith joined in the work done by John Chowning, Max Mathews, John Pierce and David Poole on computer synthesized music.

1966

In 1966, Smith developed an input syntax for MUSIC V that he called SCORE to enable music to be entered more accurately and efficiently into the new system that the team were developing.

This was developed into the independent program he called MSS which was the first computer music typesetting program, and which was further developed into the SCORE program.

Smith and Chowning, along with John Grey, Loren Rush and Andy Moorer, subsequently founded the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Smith composed for most of his life.

1974

Reviewing Smith's Woodwind Trio in 1974, Richard Swift commented how '...the long arching lines of the Trio, the sensitive and refined shaping of short movements, the twentieth-century Franco-American sonorities of the instruments make a fitting act of homage to Milhaud, but the voice is always Smith's own...'.

1976

Reviewing the two motets in 1976, Swift commented that Smith's music 'commands attention by virtue of its imaginative and expressive power and intelligent craft.'

2013

Retiring from Stanford in 1992, Smith continued to develop SCORE and was an enthusiastic supporter of the local donkey sanctuary, until his death in Palo Alto, California, on December 17, 2013.