Humdrum Lab 1
Bach Chorales
Download
A Humdrum Edition of the Bach Chorales is available at http://kern.ccarh.org/browse?l=371chorales
The data files can be downloaded using the humcat and humsplit commands:
humcat -s h://370chorales | humsplit
This should create 370 files in the format chor001.krn, chor002.krn, chor003.krn, etc.
Alternatively, all chorales can be saved to a single file like this:
humcat -s h://371chorales > 371chorales.krns
The files can also be downloaded as a ZIP file by clicking on the "Z" icon on the above webpage. From the terminal, this zip file can be downloaded with either of the commands (curl for OS X, wget for linux):