Jingju a cappella singing dataset


###——Authors: 
Rong Gong, Rafael Caro Repetto, Yile Yang, MTG-UPF, rong.gong@upf.edu, rafael.caro@upf.edu


###——Description:
This dataset is a collection of boundary annotations of a cappella singing performed by Beijing Opera (Jingju, 京剧, wiki page) 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 Segmentation of Jingju Singing Phrases into Syllabic Units by Syllable Onset Detection" in FMA 2017


The boundaries have been annotated in a hierarchical way. Line (phrase), syllable, phoneme singing units have been annotated to a jingju (Beijing opera) a-cappella singing audio dataset.

The corresponding audio files are the a-cappella singing arias recordings, which are stereo or mono, sampled at 44.1 kHz, and stored as wav files. 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 this audio dataset in your work, please cite as well 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.


###——Details
Annotation format, units, parsing code and other details please refer to https://github.com/MTG/jingjuPhonemeAnnotation


###——License:
Textgrid annotations are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Wav audio ending with ‘upf’ or ‘lon’ are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative 4.0 International.

For the license of .wav audio ending with ‘qm’ from C4DM Queen Mary University of London, please refer to this page http://isophonics.org/SingingVoiceDataset