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 `music21` -- A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and 
 Computational Musicology
 
-Copyright © 2006-2023 [Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert](http://www.trecento.com)
+Copyright © 2006-2024 [Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert](http://www.trecento.com)
 
 For more information, visit:
-https://web.mit.edu/music21
+https://www.music21.org/music21docs/
 
 To try it out, visit:
 https://tinyurl.com/m21colab (runs music21 v7)
 
 And to install, see:
-https://web.mit.edu/music21/doc/usersGuide/usersGuide_01_installing.html
+https://www.music21.org/music21docs/usersGuide/usersGuide_01_installing.html
 
-`Music21` runs on Python 3.10+.  Use version 4 on Python 2 or Py3.4, version 5
-on Py3.5, version 6 on Py3.6, version 7 on Py3.7, version 8 on Py3.8/Py3.9.
+`Music21` runs on Python 3.10+.  (Use version 4 on Python 2 or Py3.4, version 5
+on Py3.5, version 6 on Py3.6, version 7 on Py3.7, version 8 on Py3.8/Py3.9.)
 
 Released under the BSD (3-clause) license. See LICENSE.
-Externally provided software (including the MIT licensed Lilypond/MusicXML test Suite) and
+Externally provided software (including the MIT-licensed Lilypond/MusicXML test Suite) and
 music encoding in the corpus may have different licenses and/or copyrights. 
-A no-corpus version of `music21` is available also on GitHub.
+A no-corpus version of `music21` is available also on GitHub for those needing strict
+BSD-license of all parts of the system.
 
 [![Build Status](https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21/workflows/maincheck/badge.svg)](https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21)
 [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/cuthbertLab/music21/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/cuthbertLab/music21?branch=master)
 
 ## Documentation ##
 
-[User's Guide](https://web.mit.edu/music21/doc/usersGuide/index.html)
+[User's Guide](https://www.music21.org/music21docs/usersGuide/index.html)
 
-[Module Documentation](https://web.mit.edu/music21/doc/moduleReference/index.html)
+[Module Documentation](https://www.music21.org/music21docs/moduleReference/index.html)
 
 ## Mailing list ##
 
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@ Maintainers will respect confidentiality with regard to reports.
 
 ## Acknowledgements ##
 
-The development of `music21` has been supported by
+The early development of `music21` was been supported by
 the generosity of the Seaver Institute and the
-National Endowment for the Humanities.  MIT's Music and Theater Arts Section
-and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences encouraged Cuthbert
-in its development.
+National Endowment for the Humanities, along with MIT's Music and Theater Arts Section
+and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.