Music 824: Computer Applications in Music Research
Ohio State University
School of Music
Humdrum Exercise #15
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Change directories to /var/opt/Humdrum/Scores and answer the following questions.
For each question, keep a record of both the answer, and the command(s) used
to find your answer.
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In Gregorian chant, what is the most common interval following
a rising major second?
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In Gregorian chant, what is the most common interval following
a rising minor second?
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In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly follows the subdominant?
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In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly precedes the subdominant?
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In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly begins a phrase?
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For those French folksongs whose phrases begin with the dominant pitch,
what is the most common ending pitch of the phrase?
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BONUS QUESTION:
In Austrian folk songs, what is the most common interval formed by the
first and last notes of each phrase?
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BONUS QUESTION:
Consider diatonic intervals only.
In Gregorian chant, the most common sequence of intervals consists of repeated unisons.
For example, the most common 10-note interval pattern is 9 repeated unisons.
How many sequential notes do we have to consider before a string of unisons is no longer
the most common diatonic interval pattern?
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BONUS QUESTION:
In the Polish folksongs (Essen/europa/polska)
what is the average number of notes per phrase?
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