Humdrum Exercise #6 - Answers

All of the following commands assume that you are located in the appropriate score directory.

6.

In Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, which movement contains the greatest number of notes in the string parts?

First determine how many movements there are in the third Concerto (BWV 1048):
COMMAND:     ls bwv1048*.krn
                            extract -i '*ICstr' bwv1048a.krn | census -k
                            extract -i '*ICstr' bwv1048b.krn | census -k
ANSWER:         The first movement has more string notes: 10,417 versus 6,252