motive manpage

COMMAND

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

motive [input] [> output]

-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.

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:

http://kern.humdrum.org/cgi-bin/ksdata?file=bwv1046a.krn&l=/brandenburg&format=kern
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

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.