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{{Short description|Music programming language}}

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The '''Hierarchical Music Specification Language''' ('''HMSL''') is a [[music]] [[programming language]] written in the 1980s by [[Larry Polansky]], [[Phil Burk]], and [[David Rosenboom]] at [[Mills College]].<ref name="overview">{{cite journal |last1=Polansky |first1=Larry |last2=Burk |first2=Phil |last3=Rosenboom |first3=David |title=HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language): A Theoretical Overview |journal=Perspectives of New Music |date=1990 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=136-178 |doi=10.2307/833016 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/833016}}</ref> Written on top of [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]], it allowed for the creation of real-time interactive music performance systems, [[algorithmic composition]] software, and any other kind of program that requires a high degree of musical [[Music informatics|informatics]]. It was distributed by Frog Peak Music, and runs with a very light [[memory footprint]] (~1 [[megabyte]]) on [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] and [[Amiga]] systems.