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=== Computer music ===
The anthem was the first piece of music played on a computer, and the first computer music to be recorded.

Musical notes were first generated by a computer programmed by [[Alan Turing]] at the Computing Machine Laboratory of the [[University of Manchester]] in 1948. The first music proper, a performance of the National Anthem was programmed by [[Christopher Strachey]] on the Mark II [[Manchester Electronic Computer]] at same venue, in 1951. Later that year, short extracts of three pieces, the first being the National Anthem, were recorded there by a [[BBC]] outside broadcasting unit: the other pieces being "[[Baa Baa Black Sheep]]", and "[[In the Mood]]". Researchers at the [[University of Canterbury]], Christchurch restored the acetate master disc in 2016 and the results may be heard on [[SoundCloud]].<ref name="Turing">{{cite web |title=First recording of computer-generated music – created by Alan Turing – restored |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/26/first-recording-computer-generated-music-created-alan-turing-restored-enigma-code |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=28 August 2017 |date=26 September 2016 |archive-date=25 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325113654/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/26/first-recording-computer-generated-music-created-alan-turing-restored-enigma-code |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BL-2016-09">{{cite web|title=Restoring the first recording of computer music – Sound and vision blog|url=http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html|publisher=[[British Library]]|access-date=28 August 2017|date=13 September 2016|archive-date=2 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902021808/http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html|url-status=live}}</ref>