gettime manpage

COMMAND

gettime -- Create an absloute timing spine to indicate the playing time of **kern data.

gettime [-i | -s | -t | -T ] [-R] [-C] [input] [> output]

-s		Calculate attack times in seconds rather than the default of milliseconds.
-t		Display tempo information rather than time data.
-i		Interpolate at a constant tempo between pre-existing **time values.
-R		Do not round the time (in milliseconds only) or tempo value to the nearest integer.
-C		Ignore *rit and *accel tempo markers.
-T		Display the total time that a **kern score takes to be performed instead of the attack times of the individual **kern lines.
--simple		Display the total time values (using the -T option) in terms of plain seconds rather than hours:minutes:seconds.

Performance Time

The performance time of a **kern file can be calculated by using the -T option.

    gettime -T inven01.krn
       Total time:	1:29.0388 minutes
 

In this case the file inven01.krn is calculated to take 1:29 minutes to perform in real-time. If you want to calculate the time of multiple files, you can give multiple input files to the gettime program and it will provied the performance time of each individual file as well as give a total time for performing all files.

    gettime -T inven*.krn
       inven01.krn:	1:29.0388 minutes
       inven02.krn:	1:56.9675 minutes
       inven03.krn:	1:13.9554 minutes
       inven04.krn:	43.985 seconds
       inven05.krn:	1:24.0263 minutes
       inven06.krn:	1:38.9362 minutes
       inven07.krn:	1:48.0235 minutes
       inven08.krn:	51.9966 seconds
       inven09.krn:	1:46.993 minutes
       inven10.krn:	1:01.97991 minutes
       inven11.krn:	1:02.02247 minutes
       inven12.krn:	1:08.9781 minutes
       inven13.krn:	1:18.0234 minutes
       inven14.krn:	1:20.9444 minutes
       inven15.krn:	1:12.0327 minutes
       Total time:	19:57.9032 minutes
 

For direct comparison of the times for each file, you can add the --simple option to display in plain seconds:

    gettime -T --simple inven*.krn
       inven01.krn:    89.0388
       inven02.krn:    116.968
       inven03.krn:    73.9554
       inven04.krn:    43.985
       inven05.krn:    84.0263
       inven06.krn:    98.9362
       inven07.krn:    108.023
       inven08.krn:    51.9966
       inven09.krn:    106.993
       inven10.krn:    61.9799
       inven11.krn:    62.0225
       inven12.krn:    68.9781
       inven13.krn:    78.0234
       inven14.krn:    80.9444
       inven15.krn:    72.0327
       Total time:     1197.9
 

You can sort the files according to the performance length by piping the timing data to the unix sort command:

    gettime -T --simple inven*.krn | sort -n -k2 -t'	'
       inven04.krn:    43.985
       inven08.krn:    51.9966
       inven10.krn:    61.9799
       inven11.krn:    62.0225
       inven12.krn:    68.9781
       inven15.krn:    72.0327
       inven03.krn:    73.9554
       inven13.krn:    78.0234
       inven14.krn:    80.9444
       inven05.krn:    84.0263
       inven01.krn:    89.0388
       inven06.krn:    98.9362
       inven09.krn:    106.993
       inven07.krn:    108.023
       inven02.krn:    116.968
       Total time:     1197.9
 

So now it is easy to see that invention no. 4 is the shortest invention, and invention no. 2 is the longest.

Calculating the average number of notes per second

The -T option can be used in conjunction with the command census -k to calculate the number of notes per second, which may be a useful piece of information for research of a particular repertory. To calculate the average number of notes per second, you need to know two things: (1) the total time of the music, and (2) the number of notes in the music. For the Bach Inventions used in examples above, the total duration of the music is 1198 seconds. Using census -k, you find that the number of notes in the inventions is 8,462 notes. Therefore, the number of notes being played per second on the average is 8462/1198 = 7.06 notes/second.

More example usages of the gettime program are avaliable on the gettime examples page

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The compiled gettime program can be downloaded for the following platforms:
• Linux (i386 processors) compiled on April 15 2002.
• Windows compiled on 1 Jun 2006.

The source code for the program was last modified on 29 Mar 2006.