Music 824: Computer Applications in Music Research
Ohio State University
School of Music



Humdrum Exercise #5


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 Humdrum Commands
cp humdrum
   

Copy the files in /var/share/Humdrum/Music824/Exercises/exercise.01 to your own (home) directory. E.g.,

cp   /var/share/Humdrum/Music824/Exercises/exercise.01/*   ~

  1. Use the humdrum command to identify any syntactical problems with the file bad.1. Make the minimum number of editorial changes to this file so that it conforms to the Humdrum syntax.

    When you are finished, compare your revised file with the answer given in good.1.

  2. Repeat question #1 for the file bad.2.

  3. Repeat question #1 for the file bad.3.

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