Humdrum Exercise #15

For this exercise you will need to know the following new commands:

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.

1. In Gregorian chant, what is the most common interval following a rising major second? Answer

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2. In Gregorian chant, what is the most common interval following a rising minor second? Answer

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3. In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly follows the subdominant? Answer

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4. In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly precedes the subdominant? Answer

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5. In French folksongs, what scale degree most commonly begins a phrase? Answer

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6. For those French folksongs whose phrases begin with the dominant pitch, what is the most common ending pitch of the phrase? Answer

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7. BONUS QUESTION: In Austrian folk songs, what is the most common interval formed by the first and last notes of each phrase? Answer

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8. 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? Answer

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9. BONUS QUESTION: In the Polish folksongs (Essen/europa/polska) what is the average number of notes per phrase? Answer

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