From Ye Olde Teknologikal Magicks Folio, have a gander at the glory of HMSL, the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, an object-oriented extension to #forth used for experimental music in the 1980s and 1990s:
http://www.softsynth.com/hmsl/hmsl_details.php
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