Jingju a cappella singing syllable boundary and duration annotation dataset

This dataset is a collection of syllable boundary annotations and syllable duration annotations of a cappella singing performed by jingju (京剧, Beijing opera) professional and amateur singers. This dataset was used as the experimental dataset in the following work:

Rong Gong, Nicolas Obin, Georgi Dzhambazov and Xavier Serra, “Score-Informed syllable segmentation for jingju a cappella singing voice with Mel-frequency intensity profiles," in Folk Music Analysis workshop (FMA) 2017, Málaga, Spain

Audio Content

The audio files are the a cappella singing arias recordings, which are stereo or mono, sampled at 44.1 kHz, and stored as wav files. They can be found at this link http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.344932

The wav files are recorded by two institutes: those file names ending with ‘qm’ are recorded by C4DM Queen Mary University of London; others file names ending with ‘upf’ or ‘lon’ are recorded by MTG-UPF. If you use the dataset in your work, please cite the following publication.

D. A. A. Black, M. Li, and M. Tian, “Automatic Identification of Emotional Cues in Chinese Opera Singing,” in 13th Int. Conf. on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC-2014), 2014, pp. 250–255.

Annotations

The syllable boundary annotation is in Textgrid format (Praat). The annotation is done in both phrase-level and syllable-level. The syllable duration annotation is in cvs format. Please consult Readme text in both folders for further details. The parsing code of the annotation files is provided in ‘pycode’ folder. 

Availability of the Dataset

The annotations and codes in this dataset are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Contact

If you have any questions or comments about the dataset, please feel free to write to us.

Rong Gong: rong<dot>gong<at>upf<dot>edu

Rafael Caro Repetto: rafael<dot>caro<at>upf<dot>edu