Music 824: Computer Applications in Music Research
Ohio State University
School of Music
Humdrum Exercise #3
For this exercise you will need to know how to use a text
editor like pico, vi or emacs.
In addition, you will need to know the following commands:
UNIX Commands
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Humdrum Commands
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grep
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grep -h
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Change directories /var/share/Humdrum/Music824/Scores
and answer the following questions.
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In the Haydn directory, search for all string quartets
marked "Presto".
Most presto movements occur as the fourth movement
(often indicated in the filename by the trailing letter "d").
Which string quartet has the "presto" marking for the
third movement?
COMMAND: grep 'Presto' *
ANSWER: Opus 76, No. 6
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In the "monody" directory there is a subdirectory containing
Hungarian folksongs ("Magyar").
Which folksong has a meter signature of 5/8?
COMMAND: grep 'M5/8' *.krn
COMMAND: grep 'OTL' magyar10.krn
ANSWER:
!!!OTL: Wiedersehen an der Bahre Der Juengling, der in Kampfe zog,
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Which Hungarian folksong is entitled
"Vater und Tochter"?
COMMAND: grep 'Vater und Tochter' *.krn
ANSWER: magyar31.krn
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The Corelli directory contains 12 trio sonatas by
Arcangelo Corelli.
The highest pitch in these sonatas is E6 (kern "eee").
In which sonata does this pitch occur?
COMMAND: grep 'eee' *.krn
ANSWER: 3rd movement of opus 1, no. 3 (op01n03c.krn)
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The 'AIN' reference record encodes the instrumentation.
Do all of the Corelli Opus 1 trio sonatas have the same
instrumentation?
COMMAND: grep -h '!!!AIN' *.krn | uniq
ANSWER: Yes.
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