CCOM-HuQin: an Annotated Multimodal Chinese Fiddle Performance Dataset

NOTICE: For requesting to download the latest full dataset, please refer to version 2.0.1 of CCOM-HuQin.

HuQin(胡琴) is a family of traditional Chinese fiddles (bowed string instruments). CCOM-HuQin is the first multimodal performance dataset of HuQin music, which encompasses eight representative HuQin categories played by professional players majoring in HuQin performing arts at Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM).

The instruments are as follows:

• Erhu (二胡)
• Banhu family (板胡): Soprano Banhu (高音板胡), Alto Banhu (中音板胡), Tenor Banhu (次中音板胡) and Bass Banhu (低音板胡)
• Gaohu (高胡)
• Zhuihu (坠胡)
• Zhonghu (中胡)

In the dataset, we highlight the rich and complex Playing Techniques(PTs), which constitute important aspects of distinct regional and ethnic features in the HuQin family. CCOM-HuQin comprises two subsets: (1) single PT recordings that in-
clude various articulations regarding velocity, dynamics, and pitch intervals; (2) classical musical excerpts provided with performance scores and transcription files with ground-truth PT annotations validated by professionals. For each musical piece, we provide high-quality audio and aligned videos with multiple-camera views.

Overall, the CCOM-HuQin dataset contains audio-visual recordings of 11,992 single PT clips and 57 annotated musical excerpts. In this version 1.1, we open access to 845 single PT clips and 10 annotated musical excerpts, a subset which covers all the PT categories and instruments. The rest of the dataset will be released in the upcoming versions.

CCOM-HuQin dataset is developed by Yu Zhang (PhD candidate) and Ziya Zhou (graduate), under the supervision of Prof. Maosong Sun, Prof. Feng Yu and Prof. Xiaobing Li, at the Department of AI Music and Music Information Technology, CCOM. We thank Kai Chen, Li Li, Zengqi Zhang, Runze Li, Peize Li, Zhaoxing Wang, Chuting Wang for participating in performance and annotation and providing professional advice on building the dataset, Yiru Xu and Xueying Wang for their recording expertise. We also thank Prof. Zijin Li for providing constructive comments. 

For more details about the usage of the dataset, please refer to the readme.pdf in the dataset folder.

This dataset is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Related paper:

Zhang, Y., Zhou, Z., Li, X., Yu, F., & Sun, M. (2022). CCOM-HuQin: an Annotated Multimodal Chinese Fiddle Performance Dataset. arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06496.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06496

Contact

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ziyaz@mail.ccom.edu.cn