Leland Smith
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.

Career
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.  Smith continued studying with Milhaud for two years till he was old enough to join the United States Navy in 1943.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.  He also assisted Milhaud as a teaching assistant at Mills College from 1951-2.  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.  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.  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.  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...'.  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.'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.

Notable publications
Smith, Leland (1972). "SCORE - A Musician's Approach to Computer Music" (PDF). Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 20 (1): 7–14. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
Smith, Leland (1973). "Editing and Printing Music by Computer". Journal of Music Theory. 17 (2): 292–309. doi:10.2307/843345. JSTOR 843345. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
Smith, Leland (1979). Handbook of Harmonic Analysis (Second ed.). San Andreas Press. Notable as the first music book typeset entirely by computer.

Compositions
Introduction and divertimento for five instruments, 1949
String trio, 1953
Four etudes for piano, 1966
Six bagatelles for piano, 1971
Two motets for mixed chorus, 1972
Trio for woodwinds, 1973
Intermezzo and Capriccio for piano, 1976
Two duets for clarinet and bassoon, 1977
Suite for trio, 1977
Sonata for trumpet and piano, 1980
Twelve etudes for trumpet, 1980
Wind quintet, 1981
Three pacifist songs for soprano and piano, 1982
Sonatina and concert piece for violin and piano, 1982
Suite for solo viola, 1982
Sonata for viola and piano, 1982
Piano sonata, 1984
Symphony for small orchestra, 1985

References
External links
Links to archival documents related to Smith at CCRMA
Video interview with Leland Smith at NAMM
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution at CCRMA