Humdrum Toolkit



What is Humdrum?
  • suite of software tools intended to assist music researchers

  • able to represent a wide variety of music-related information

  • allows users to manipulate information in musically useful ways
What Can Humdrum Do?
  • In the music of Stravinsky, are dissonances more common in strong or weak metric positions?

  • What are the most common fret-board patterns in guitar riffs by Jimi Hendrix?

  • Did George Gershwin tend to use more syncopation in his later works?

  • Are German drinking songs more likely to be in triple meter?