Turkish Makam Music Audio-Score Alignment Dataset

<p>This release contains the annotations and the scores to test the audio-score alignment methodology explained in:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Şent&uuml;rk, S., Gulati, S., and Serra, X. (2014). <strong>Towards alignment of score and audio recordings of Ottoman-Turkish makam music.</strong> In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, pages 57&ndash;60, Istanbul, Turkey.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>The dataset in this release is derived from the transcription test dataset used in the paper:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Benetos, E. &amp; Holzapfel, A. (2013). <strong>Automatic transcription of Turkish makam music.</strong> In Proceedings of 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 4 - 8 Nov 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>The scores for each composition are obtained from the SymbTr collection explained in:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Karaosmanoğlu, K. (2012). <strong>A Turkish makam music symbolic database for music information retrieval: SymbTr.</strong> In Proceedings of 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), pages 223&ndash;228.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>From the&nbsp; annotated score onsets for some of the above recordings only the main singing voice segments have been selected. Further separately only a subset of vocal onsets crresponding to phoneme transitions rules have been explicitly annotated as annotationOnsets.txt</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://mtg.upf.edu/biblio/author/810">Dzhambazov, G.</a>, <a href="http://mtg.upf.edu/biblio/author/644">Srinivasamurthy A.</a>, <a href="http://mtg.upf.edu/biblio/author/494">Şent&uuml;rk S.</a>, &amp; <a href="http://mtg.upf.edu/biblio/author/1012">Serra X.</a> (2016).&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://mtg.upf.edu/node/3492">On the Use of Note Onsets for Improved Lyrics-to-audio Alignment in Turkish Makam Music</a>. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Using this dataset</strong></p> <p>Please cite the above publications if you use this dataset in a publication.</p> <p>We are interested in knowing if you find our datasets useful! If you use our dataset please email us at <a href="mailto:mtg-info@upf.edu">mtg-info@upf.edu</a> and tell us about your research.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/233">http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/233&nbsp;</a></p>