Turkish Makam Music Audio-Score Alignment Dataset

This release contains the annotations and the scores to test the audio-score alignment methodology explained in: <em>Şentürk, S., Gulati, S., and Serra, X. (2014). <strong>Towards alignment of score and audio recordings of Ottoman-Turkish makam music.</strong> In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, pages 57–60, Istanbul, Turkey.</em> The dataset in this release is derived from the transcription test dataset used in the paper: <em>Benetos, E. &amp; Holzapfel, A. (2013). <strong>Automatic transcription of Turkish makam music.</strong> In Proceedings of 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 4 - 8 Nov 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.</em> The scores for each composition are obtained from the SymbTr collection explained in: <em>Karaosmanoğlu, K. (2012). <strong>A Turkish makam music symbolic database for music information retrieval: SymbTr.</strong> In Proceedings of 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), pages 223–228.</em> From the annotated score onsets for some of the above recordings only the main singing voice segments have been selected. Further separately only a subset of vocal onsets crresponding to phoneme transitions rules have been explicitly annotated as annotationOnsets.txt Dzhambazov, G., Srinivasamurthy A., Şentürk S., &amp; Serra X. (2016). On the Use of Note Onsets for Improved Lyrics-to-audio Alignment in Turkish Makam Music. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016 <strong>Using this dataset</strong> Please cite the above publications if you use this dataset in a publication. We are interested in knowing if you find our datasets useful! If you use our dataset please email us at [e-mail] and tell us about your research. http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/233