This repository is a digital edition of the preludes composed by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, encoded in the Humdrum file format. Tools for processing the encodings in this format on the command-line can be found online at https://github.com/humdrum-tools
The encodings are located in the 'kern' directory. Scans of the source edition can be downloaded from kernScores with this command:
make reference
These digital scores can also be found as a submodule in the humdrum-data repository.
These digital scores may also be found on the kernScores website:
with mirrors at:
which includes dynamic conversions to other data formats.
The Humdrum Extras command-line programs can download these files from kernScores. A quick method of downloading:
mkdir -p hummel/preludes
cd hummel/preludes
humsplit h://hummel/preludes
To get online access to a single movement, for example to transpose the first prelude to G major:
transpose -k g h://hummel/preludes/prelude67-01.krn
To interface to the Humdrum Toolkit commands, use the humcat command to download to standard input (the -s option is needed when downloading multiple files):
humcat -s h://hummel/preludes | census -k
The makefile provided in the base directory includes example data
processing commands. Type make
when in the same directory as the
makefile to list commands that can be run with the makefile.
If the command which make
reports that the make command cannot
be found, then you must install it. In linux, this command might
install it:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
# or
sudo yum install build-essential
In OS X Mavericks or later, install the Xcode command-line tools:
xcode-select --install
In Cygwin on MS Windows, re-run the cygwin install program and make sure that the development tools are included in the installation packages.