Indian Semi-Classical Music Dataset

This dataset is a collection of mel-spectrogram features extracted from Indian semi-classical music containing the following 9 semi-classical styles: Bhajan, Chaiti, Dadra, Ghazal, Kajri, Natya Sangeet, Qawwali, Tappa, Thumri. The number of recordings varies from 25 (for Chaiti) to 50 in the mentioned styles representing the scarcity of availability of given folk styles on the Internet. There are at least 5 artists and a maximum of 13. Overall there are 48 artists (36 female + 12 male) in these 9 semi-classical styles. There is a total of 425 recordings in the dataset, with a total duration of 54.69 hrs. Mel-spectrogram is extracted from a 3-second segment with each song's 1/2 second sliding window. Extracted mel-spectrogram for each segment is annotated with the genre, artist, gender, song, source, no_of_artists, genre_id, artist_id, gender_id. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This project was funded under the grant number: ECR/2018/000204 by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB).