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Welcome to the Musical Corpora Register!

The purpose of this wiki is to collect links to published musical corpora including some explanations. Hopefully, it is useful to some students and researchers that study music. The corpora are not listed in a praticular order, yet. Everybody is welcome to contribute!

Pop / Rock corpus of harmonic labels

• http://rockcorpus.midside.com
• by Trevor deClercq and David Temperley
• first published in 2011
• corpus of harmonic labels for Pop / Rock songs in standard roman numeral notation

iReal Jazz chord sequences

• http://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/home/index.php/iRb_Jazz_Corpus
• by Yuri Broze and Daniel Shanahan
• in humdrum format
• corpus of chord sequences of Jazz standards from Realbooks
• community-based data set

McGill Billboard Project

• http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/research/billboard
• by John Ashley Burgoyne, Jonathan Wild, and Ichiro Fujinaga
• An Expert Ground Truth Set for Audio Chord Recognition and Music Analysis

TAVERN

• http://u.osu.edu/tavern/
• by Johanna Devaney, Claire Arthur, Nathaniel Condit-Schultz, and Kirsten Nisula
• theme and variation encodings with roman numerals
• themes and variations for piano by Mozart and Beethoven, divided into 1060 phrases
• annotated with roman numerals

Links without description

• http://isophonics.net/content/reference-annotations-beatles
• http://ycac.yale.edu/downloads