Expert and Novice Evaluations of Piano Performances

This dataset was collected to compare performance assessment criteria used by experts and novices. Beyond the 83 amateur piano performance audio recordings (in the WAV format) and the 803 evaluation entries of these performances, the dataset also contains each player's self-identified skill level, seven digital scores (in the MusicXML format), and 83 audio-to-score alignment files indicating the starting time in the audio of each musical note in the scores. The included CSV file contains 83 rows, each row representing one piano performance. Each performance was evaluated by four professional piano instructors, and by five or six randomly chosen peer players (one of whom could be the performer him/herself as the player information was never shared). The columns in the CSV file specify each performance’s score name, its player (identified by a number from 1 to 21), as well as the numerical and textual evaluations from the four instructors and from the peer players. More information can be found on the project website: https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~yjiang3/papers/ismir23/.