Expressive Solo Violin

This dataset consists of nine short (approximately one minute each) musical excerpts of solo violin recorded in the same day and setting by a professional violinist. The pieces were chosen from the violinist's repertoire with the intention of providing a wide range of moods and melodies of western classical violin, and were played unaccompanied and without metronome. Each excerpt was performed three times with different directions: once as inexpressively as possible, once as the musician believes they would normally play, and a third time exaggerating all expressive actions. The audio was captured with multiple condenser microphones, one placed at close distance from the violin body, another placed higher, above the musician's head, and a stereo pair about 1m away from the player in an X/Y configuration.