Pasillo and Sanjuanito Performance Data Set

These data sets contain timbre, tempo, harmonic complexity, tonal complexity and instrumentation data from a corpus of 74 recordings of Ecuadorian pasillos and sanjuanitos. The recordings span the years 1949 to 2023, and consist of ‘standards’ that have been performed and recorded consistently during the last 73 years. These data sets were produced for a research project investigating the stylistic changes over time in these two genres of Ecuadorian popular music, which, according to musicological consensus, have great symbolical and cultural importance in this country.