An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century

This corpus of 264 annotated music scores has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard.

The publication covers the following corpora (the DOI links always point at the latest version respectively):

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
• Frédéric Chopin - Mazurkas
• Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque
• Antonín Dvořák - Silhouettes
• Franz Liszt - Années de Pèlerinage
• Nikolai Medtner - Tales
• Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Seasons
• Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces

Version 1.1 comes with a complete set of metadata and score headers. Among more accurate composition dates, the metadata now include URIs that identify the compositions in terms of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), Wikidata, IMSLP and MusicBrainz. The data has been re-extracted from the scores using ms3 1.1.1.

Version 1 has been released for submitting it as part of the data report Hentschel, J., Rammos, Y., Neuwirth, M., Rohrmeier, M. (forthcoming). An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century that accompanies nine corpora grouped under the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7483349.