Humdrum Exercise #8 - Answers

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

5.

What Dutch folksong contains the most number of phrases?

COMMAND:     grep '^{' *.krn | more
ANSWER:         neder007.krn ("Komt hier ..."

In the Dutch folksong "Welekomen Keremisvolk" (neder012.krn) which phrase contains the most notes?

COMMAND:     yank -o { -e } -r 1 neder012.krn | census -k
                            yank -o { -e } -r 2 neder012.krn | census -k
                            yank -o { -e } -r 3 neder012.krn | census -k
                            yank -o { -e } -r 4 neder012.krn | census -k
ANSWER:         3rd phrase (9 notes)