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 Package: hrep
 Title: Harmony Representations
-Version: 0.8.0
+Version: 0.9.0
 Authors@R: person("Peter", "Harrison", email = "pmc.harrison@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: This package provides methods for representing and manipulating chord sequences.
 Depends: R (>= 3.4.0)
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+# hrep 0.9.0
+
 - Expanding sound synthesis capabilities.
 
 # hrep 0.8.0