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''Music Mouse'' is an
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developed by
Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Labs, Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic music electronic music, compositions and her algorithmic compositio ...
. Spiegel's best known and most widely used software, "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument" (1986) is for
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computers. The " intelligent instrument" name refers to the program's built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints. Automating these processes allows the user to focus on other aspects of the music in real time. In addition to improvisations using this software, Spiegel composed several works for "Music Mouse", including ''Cavis muris'' in 1986, ''Three Sonic Spaces'' in 1989, and ''Sound Zones'' in 1990. She continued to update the program through Macintosh OS 9. It remained available until 2021; as of 2023, the website is no longer active and is archived on the Wayback Machine.


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List of music software This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora (service), Pandora, Prime ...


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Music Mouse
, ''The Music Mouse website''.

, ''The Music Mouse Instruction Manual and Tutorial by Laurie Spiegel''.
Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument - An Emulation
''Tero Parviainen, Independent Software Developer'' {{Computer music Music software