Tonas: A Dataset Of Flamenco A Cappella Sung Melodies With Corresponding Manual Transcriptions

This dataset contains a music collection of 72 sung excerpts representative of three a cappella singing styles (Deblas, two variants of Martinete).<br> The distribution is as follows: 16 Deblas 36 Martinete 1 20 Martinete 2 This collection was built in the context of a study on similarity and style classification of flamenco a cappella singing styles (Tonas) by the flamenco expert Dr. Joaquin Mora, Universidad de Sevilla. We refer to (Mora et al. 2010) for a comprehensive description of the considered styles and their musical characteristics. All 72 excerpts are monophonic, their average duration is 30 seconds and there is enough variability for a proper evaluation of our methods, including a variety of singers, recording conditions, presence of percussion, clapping, background voices and noise. We also provide manual melodic transcriptions, generated by the COFLA team and <strong>Cristina López</strong> <strong>Gómez.</strong> <strong>Using this dataset </strong> When TONAS is used for academic research, we would highly appreciate if scientific publications of works partly based on the TONAS dataset quote the following publication: Music material Mora, J., Gomez, F., Gomez, E., Escobar-Borrego, F.J., Diaz-Banez, J.M. (2010). Melodic Characterization and Similarity in A Cappella Flamenco Cantes. 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010). Transcriptions Gomez, E., Bonada, J. (in Press). Towards Computer-Assisted Flamenco Transcription: An Experimental Comparison of Automatic Transcription Algorithms As Applied to A Cappella Singing. Computer Music Journal. 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. https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/tonas