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This repository is a digital edition of the the Well-tempered Clavierby J.S. Bach (Books I & II), encoded in the Humdrum file format.Tools for processing the encodings in this format on the command-linecan be found online athttps://github.com/humdrum-tools

These digital scores can also be found as a submodule in thehumdrum-data repository.

These digital scores may also be found on the kernScores website:

• http://kernscores.stanford.edu/browse?l=wtc

with mirrors at:

• http://kern.humdrum.org/browse?l=wtc
• http://kern.ccarh.org/browse?l=wtc

which includes dynamic conversions to other data formats.

TheHumdrum Extras command-line programscan download these files from kernScores. A quick method of downloading:

    mkdir -p bach-js/wtccd bach-js/wtc    humsplit h://wtc

To get online access to a single movement, for example to transpose the firstprelude into D-flat major:

   transpose -k d- h://wtc/wtc1p01

To interface to the Humdrum Toolkit commands, use the humcat command to download to standard input (the -s option is needed when downloading multiple files):

   humcat -s h://wtc| census -k

The makefile provided in the base directory includes example dataprocessing commands. Typemake when in the same directory as themakefile to list commands that can be run with the makefile.

If the commandwhich make reports that the make command cannotbe found, then you must install it. In linux, this command mightinstall it:

   sudo apt-get install build-essential# or   sudo yum install build-essential

In OS X Mavericks or later, install the Xcode command-line tools:

   xcode-select --install

In Cygwin on MS Windows, re-run the cygwin install program and make surethat the development tools are included in the installation packages.