Beijing Opera Percussion Patterns

This page provides additional resources about percussion patterns in Beijing Opera and serves as an accompanying page for [1]. The page provides additional information, scores and audio examples for commonly occuring percussion patterns. Please use the page in conjunction with [1]. 
 
[1] Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Rafael Caro Repetto, Harshavardhan Sundar, Xavier Serra, "Transcription and Recognition of Syllable based Percussion Patterns: The Case of Beijing Opera," in Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2014
 
There is a dataset containing audio examples of the percussion patterns described below. For the dataset, please see: http://compmusic.upf.edu/bopp-dataset
For some audio examples of individual percussion instruments used in Beijing Opera, please see: http://compmusic.upf.edu/examples-percussion-bo
 
The scores for percussion patterns is shown with staff notation below have been adapted from:
W. Mu(穆文义). Jingju dajiyue jiqiao yu lianxi: yanzou jiaocheng 京剧打击乐技巧与练习:演奏教程 (Technique and practice of Beijing opera percussion music: a performance course). Renmin yinyue chubanshe, Beijing, 2007
 
The scores show the staff notation followed by the syllabic representation for the pattern. The syllabic representation is shown on three lines:
Top row: The representation with the full set of syllables (chinese characters)
Middle row: The representation with the full set of syllables (pinyin)
Last row: The representation with the reduced set of syllable groups, as introduced in [1]. 
For the symbols used, please see Table 1 of [1]. 
 
Please note that Man changchui and shanchui have repeating subsequences within the same pattern. 
 

Daoban tou

The score and syllabic representation of Daoban tou

An audio example of Daoban tou

(from http://musicbrainz.org/recording/551d0fe7-dbd6-430f-89b6-a75566be1e34 )

Man changchui

The score and syllabic representation of Man changchui

An audio example of Man changchui

(from http://musicbrainz.org/recording/1845b538-0110-48ab-b4d8-b0a63eec7d1d )

Duotuo

The score and syllabic representation of Duotuo

An audio example of Duotuo

(from http://musicbrainz.org/recording/957c756b-154b-4041-9dc8-d12487807ea5 )

Xiaoluo duotuo

The score and syllabic representation of Xiaoluo Duotuo

An audio example of Xiaoluo duotuo

(from http://musicbrainz.org/recording/ad7ade1d-40dd-4533-b4e2-58a4a660b13b )

Shanchui

The score and syllabic representation of Shanchui

An audio example of Shanchui

(from http://musicbrainz.org/recording/d49598f3-137d-426e-ace3-81f384cfb8a6 )