ORCHSET: a dataset for melody extraction in symphonic music recordings

<p>Orchset is intended to be used as a dataset for the development and evaluation of melody extraction algorithms. This collection contains 64 audio excerpts focused on symphonic music. with their corresponding annotation of the melody.</p> <p>Melody is here defined as &ldquo;the single (monophonic) pitch sequence that a listener might reproduce if asked to whistle or hum a piece of polyphonic music&rdquo;.</p> <p>The dataset creation comprised several tasks: excerpts selection, recording sessions of people singing along with the excerpts, analysis of the recordings and melody annotation. A complete description of the dataset and the creation methodology is presented in this paper:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bosch, J., Marxer, R., Gomez, E., &ldquo;Evaluation and Combination of Pitch Estimation Methods for Melody Extraction in Symphonic Classical Music&rdquo;, Journal of New Music Research (2016)</p> </blockquote> <p>Please Acknowledge Orchset in Academic Research</p> <p><strong>Using this dataset</strong></p> <p>When Orchset is used for academic research, we would highly appreciate if scientific publications of works partly based on the Orchset dataset quote the above 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="https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/orchset">https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/orchset</a></p>