Who will benefit from using Humdrum?
Humdrum will be of potential benefit to anyone wishing to pursue systematic investigations of musical information. This includes the posing of “factual” questions about music, and the testing of hypotheses about musical organization. In short, Humdrum may prove valuable to music theorists, music analysts, ethnomusicologists, historical musicologists, psychomusicologists, music librarians, dance scholars, linguists, and people who have a general interest in music. Humdrum is less well suited to individuals involved in creative (i.e. generative) musical activities — such as composition, conducting, or performance. However, Humdrum is well suited to studying compositions, conducting, performances … 5. What computer systems does Humdrum run on? Humdrum was designed for the UNIX operating system. It runs on a variety of UNIX systems including Linux, HPUX, NeXTSTEP, etc. It also runs under Windows ’95, Windows ’98, Windows NT, DOS and OS/2 — provided basic UNIX commands are available. Fo
