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From the music21 documentation page:
http://mit.edu/music21/doc/html/overviewFormats.html#parsing-humdrum-files

To read a Humdrum file into [[Music21]], first you must import the music21 module in python:
from music21 import *

You can see what functions/variables were imported from music21 by typing this command in the python interpreter:
dir(music21)

If you want basic online help for a particular function use the help() command:
help(music21.converter)

NAME
music21.converter - Public interface for importing
various file formats into music21.

FILE
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/music21/converter.py

DESCRIPTION
The most powerful and easy to use tool is the
:func:`~music21.converter.parse` function. Simply provide a
URL and, if the format is supported, a :class:`~music21.stream.Stream`
will be returned.

The music21.converter is used to load in a Humdrum file, either from the hard disk or from a URL:
work = converter.parse('http://kern.ccarh.org/data?l=beethoven/sonatas&file=sonata01-1.krn')
Note that in order to download data from the internet you must first allow auto-downloading in the music21 environment.

or in the shell, download a humdrum file to the hard disk:
wget 'http://kern.ccarh.org/data?l=beethoven/sonatas&file=sonata01-1.krn' -O sonata01-1.krn
or with the [[Humdrum Extras]] tool [[humcat]]:
humcat h://beethoven/sonatas/sonata01-1.krn > sonata01-1.krn
and then type in python:
work = converter.parse('sonata01-1.krn')

Once the file has been loaded you can display it with the show command:
work.show()

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