Indian Art Music Tonic Datasets

Introduction

These datasets comprise audio excerpts and manually done annotations of the tonic pitch of the lead artist for each audio excerpt. Each excerpt is accompanied by its associated editorial metadata. These datasets can be used to develop and evaluate computational approaches for automatic tonic identification in Indian art music. These datasets have been used in several articles mentioned below. A majority of these datasets come from the CompMusic corpora of Indian art music, for which each recording is associated with a MBID.

Please cite the following publication if you use the material shared here in your research work.

[1]. Gulati, S., Bellur, A., Salamon, J., Ranjani, H. G., Ishwar, V., Murthy, H. A., & Serra, X. (2014). Automatic Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music: Approaches and Evaluation. Journal of New Music Research, 43(01), 55–73.
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Annotation Format

The tonic annotations are availabe both in tsv and json format.

TSV: <relative path to audio><tab><tonic(Hz)><tab><Carnatic or Hindustani><tab><artist_name><tab><gender of the singer><vocal or instrumental>

JSON: {
'artist': <name of the lead artist if available>,

'filepath': <relative path to the audio file>,

'gender': <gender of the lead singer if available>,

'mbid': <musicbrainz id when available>,

'tonic': <tonic in Hz>,

'tradition': <Hindustani or Carnatic>,

'type': <vocal or instrumental>
}

where keys of the main dictionary are the filepaths to the audio files (feature path is exactly the same with a different extension of the file name).

References

Gulati, S., Bellur, A., Salamon, J., Ranjani, H. G., Ishwar, V., Murthy, H. A., and Serra, X. (2014). Automatic Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music: Approaches and Evaluation.Journal of New Music Research, 43(01), 53-71.
Gulati, S., A Tonic Identification Approach for Indian Art Music, Master dissertation, Music Technology Group, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2012.
Salamon, J., Gulati, S., and Serra, X. "A Multipitch Approach to Tonic Identification in Indian Classical Music." In proc. of ISMIR, pp. 499-504, Portugal, Porto. 2012.