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motive manpage


COMMAND

    motive -- Analysis tool for automatic identification of motives in monophonic music or polyphonic music with monophonic parts.

SYNOPSIS

    motive [input[> output]

OPTIONS

    -z Describe diatonic intervals as: 0=unison, 1=second, 2=third, 3=fourth. Otherwise, the default behavior is 0=unison, 2=second, 3=third, 4=fourth, etc.
    -R Don't span rests when calculating note-to-note transitions.
    -I Do not echo input data when printing output Humdrum data.

EXAMPLES

ONLINE DATA

    Input arguments or piped data which are expected to be Humdrum files can also be web addresses. For example, if a program can process files like this:
           program file.krn
    It can also read the data over the web:
           program http://www.some-computer.com/some-directory/file.krn
    Piped data works in a somewhat similar manner:
           cat file.krn | program
    is equivalent to a web file using ths form:
           echo http://www.some-computer.com/some-directory/file.krn | program

    Besides the http:// protocol, there is another special resource indicator prefix called humdrum:// which downloads data from the kernscores website. For example, using the URI humdrum://brandenburg/bwv1046a.krn:

          program humdrum://brandenburg/bwv1046a.krn
    will download the URL:
    Which is found in the Musedata Bach Brandenburg Concerto collection.

    This online-access of Humdrum data can also interface with the classical Humdrum Toolkit commands by using humcat to download the data from the kernscores website. For example, try the command pipeline:

          humcat humdrum://brandenburg/bwv1046a.krn | census -k

DOWNLOAD

    The compiled motive program can be downloaded for the following platforms:
    • Linux (i386 processors) (dynamically linked) compiled on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Windows compiled on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Mac OS X/i386 compiled on 28 Jun 2012.

    The source code for the program was last modified on 31 Oct 2010. Click here to go to the full source-code download page.