Leone Allemandes Corpus

The corpus we present is comprised of twenty-four allemandes (dance music originating from Germany, usually possessing even meter), written in 1768 by Gabriele Leone (sometimes referred to as Pietro Leone), a mandolin virtuoso from Naples. These pieces were originally included in a method for teaching mandolin to violin players (in particular, the method was dedicated to Louis Philippe II, later known as Philippe Égalité, at the time when he was Duke of Chartres). As such, despite the great technical ability of the author, the pieces are extremely simple and can be played by a novice. All of the allemandes are written for a mandolin duo, ideally having the first part played by the student and the second by the teacher, so all these pieces are polyphonic. In addition, a single instrument often plays chords, so either part may polyphonic on its own. Since the Neapolitan mandolin has only four strings, neither part ever has more than four simultaneous notes.<br> <br> These pieces are released here in MusicXML format, with added chord annotations. We propose this corpus as a tool for the study of musical structure, as these simple pieces have strong formal regularities. More information can be found on the paper below. <br> <br> _________________<br> <br> If you use this corpus for an academic publication, please cite the following paper: <br> <br> Filippo Carnovalini, Antonio Rodà, Nicholas Harley, Steven T. Homer, and Geraint A. Wiggins. 2021. A New Corpus for Computational Music Research and A Novel Method for Musical Structure Analysis. In Audio Mostly 2021 (AM ’21), September 1–3, 2021, virtual/Trento, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478402本研究提供的语料库包含24首阿勒曼德舞曲（allemandes），这类舞曲源自德国，通常采用规整节拍。作品由来自那不勒斯的曼陀林（mandolin）演奏大师加布里埃莱·莱奥内（Gabriele Leone，亦称彼得罗·莱奥内）于1768年创作。这些曲目最初被收录于一本面向小提琴学习者的曼陀林教学手册中，该手册专为路易·菲利普二世（Louis Philippe II，后被称为菲利普·埃加利泰）所作，彼时他尚为沙特尔公爵。尽管作者具备精湛的演奏技艺，这些曲目却极为简易，可供新手演奏。所有阿勒曼德舞曲均为曼陀林二重奏而作，理想状态下由学生演奏第一声部，教师演奏第二声部，因此全部曲目均为复调作品。此外，单乐器声部常演奏和弦，因此任一单独声部亦可构成独立复调结构。由于那不勒斯曼陀林仅设四根琴弦，任一声部的同时发音音符均不超过四个。 本次发布的曲目采用MusicXML格式，并附带和弦标注。鉴于这些简易曲目具备鲜明的形式规整性，我们将该语料库作为音乐结构研究的工具推出。更多细节可参阅下述论文。 若将该语料库用于学术发表，请引用如下论文： 菲利波·卡尔诺瓦利尼、安东尼奥·罗达、尼古拉斯·哈利、史蒂文·T·霍默以及杰兰特·A·威金斯。2021年。面向计算音乐研究的全新语料库与音乐结构分析的创新方法。收录于2021年音频技术大会（Audio Mostly 2021，简称AM’21），2021年9月1日至3日，线上/意大利特伦托。ACM，美国纽约州纽约市，共4页。https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478402