David Huron
Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, 1995.
The "Humdrum Toolkit" is a general-purpose software package intended to assist music researchers -- particularly those scholars interested in systematic or empirically-oriented research.
Humdrum's capabilities are quite broad. It can encode information in an unbounded variety of forms. For example, data may represent common musical notation, particular historical or tablature notations, cognitive, physiological, kinematic, or other types of user-defined information. Humdrum is especially adept at coordinating different types of information within a single document -- such as EKG data and common musical notation.
Humdrum can transform, classify, coordinate, search, transfer, restructure, contextualize, compare, and otherwise manipulate both pre-defined and user-defined information. Humdrum is not intended for sound synthesis or music printing applications.[1]
The Humdrum Toolkit is distributed free of charge and currently runs on UNIX, DOS, and OS/2 systems. The presentation consists of a 50-minute videotaped demonstration.