CRIM Search and Analysis Tools

CRIM now features several tools for search and analysis

Concepts and Vocabularies (2022 Versions)

• Quick Orientation

• Tour of CRIM Website.  How to make and Edit Relationships.  All about Advanced Search. (updated Sept 2022)

• Tour of CRIM Editor's Forum Site

• Renaissance Style in Six Measures

• CRIM 2022 Musical Types Explained

• CRIM 2022 Relationship Types Explained

• The Story of a Soggetto (from MEI to Screen and Data Models)

• Introduction to CRIM Intervals and Notebooks (updated Sept 2022)

CRIM Intervals for Automated Analysis

• CRIM Intervals is a Python library for the analysis of encoded scores.  It builds on the powerful music21 library (courtesy of Myke Cuthbert, MIT), and works with MEI, MusicXML, and Midi files.  

• Use it to find melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal patterns, and to create heatmaps and network graphs of patterns in one or more works.

• CRIM Intervals will also predict the location, type and details of cadences, homorhythm and presentation types.

• CRIM Intervals now works with a series of Jupyter Notebooks.  Contact richard freedman for a link to use these in any browser, via Jupyter Hub, and without the need to install special software.

New for 2023:  Try the CRIM Intervals Web Application

No Python or programming knowledge needed!

Visit the CRIM Intervals Web App

CRIM Intervals can now be used via a simple but powerful web application (made with Streamlit).  

• Load one or more works from CRIM, or indeed any MEI or MusicXML files of your own.

• Run any of the CRIM Methods on the files

• Quickly view, filter and download results in tables, charts, and other visualizations to use in subsequent work or publications

• Quick video tutorial, and links to CRIM Intervals documentation so you can learn what is happening in the code!

All About CRIM Intervals and Notebooks

Read the documentation on Git Hub, or watch the videos below.

Video Tutorials for Jupyter Notebooks:

1. Introduction to CRIM Intervals and Notebooks (September 2022)

2.  Notebook 01:  Notes and Rests (Updated Sept 2022)

3.  Notebook 02:  Melodic and Harmonic Intervals and nGrams (updated Sept 2022)

4. Notebook 03:  Contrapuntal Modules as nGrams (updated Sept 2022)

5. Notebook 04:  Cadences (with Verovio, Corpus and Networks) (Updated Sept 2022)

   1. Notebook 4d:  Radar Plots for Cadences (October 2022)

6. Notebook 05:  Presentation Types (with Verovio, Corpus, and Networks (Updated Sept 2022)

7. Notebook 06:  Finding Homorhythm (Updated Sept 2022)

8. Notebook 07:  Heatmaps--Notes, Ngrams, Observations, Relationships (Updated Sept 2022)

   1. Update for Notebook 7 (new ways to refine nGram heatmaps--October 2022)

9. Notebook 08:  Exploring CRIM website Metadata (and JSON)

10. Notebook 09:  Experimenting with Edit Distance

11. Notebook 10:  Creating a Corpus (for use with any function).   Updated Sept 2022

12. Notebook 11:  Annotation-Based Search--EMA to Intervals

Run the Notebooks in Haverford's Jupyter Hub

• Launch CRIM Intervals on Jupyter Hub (contact Richard Freedman for login and password)

  • Install and Reinstall Notebooks in the DS-CRIM Jupyter Hub

• Launch the Day of Digital Learning Notebooks on Jupyter Hub (beyond CRIM, these show functions for text, maps and other features)

Archive of CRIM Participant Zoom Sessions

• Archive of 2022 CRIM Open Meeting Recordings (Zoom recordings)

More about the Jupyter Notebooks and CRIM Intervals

• CRIM Intervals on Github

• CRIM Jupyter Notebooks on Github 

CRIM Project Advanced Metadata Search

• Basic search (with lists of Observations, Relationships, Pieces, Models, Masses, People, Sources, etc, can be done through the CRIM web application

• Advanced search is performed with Streamlit web application that using live data from CRIM, but allowing for various kinds of faceted searches, basic visualizations, and download of useful CSV files of Observations, Relationships and other data for further study.

• Code on Github.