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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by int_19h on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:28PM (#28201234)
I would argue that the granddaddy of them all is the PLAY statement in BASIC:

https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/PLAY.html

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by soylentcola on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:26PM (#28201823)
I had a lot of fun with this on my Commodore. The version of BASIC on the C=128 was surprisingly versatile. I was just a kid in elementary school, but messing with ENVELOPE and PLAY taught me the basics of attack/decay/sustain/release and other synth concepts. Very cool stuff to discover in the giant manual that came with the thing!
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