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2020
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MTD: A Multimodal Dataset of Musical Themes for MIR Research
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Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
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tismir
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Abstract
Musical themes are essential elements in Western classical music. In this paper, we present the Musical Theme Dataset (MTD), a multimodal dataset inspired by "A Dictionary of Musical Themes" by Barlow and Morgenstern from 1948. For a subset of 2067 themes of the printed book, we created several digital representations of the musical themes. Beyond graphical sheet music, we provide symbolic music encodings, audio snippets of music recordings, alignments between the symbolic and audio representations, as well as detailed metadata on the composer, work, recording, and musical characteristics of the themes. In addition to the data, we also make several parsers and web-based interfaces available to access and explore the different modalities and their relations through visualizations and sonifications. These interfaces also include computational tools, bridging the gap between the original dictionary and music information retrieval (MIR) research. The dataset is of relevance for various subfields and tasks in MIR, such as cross-modal music retrieval, music alignment, optical music recognition, music transcription, and computational musicology.
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Music and Audio ProcessingDiverse Musicological StudiesMusic Technology and Sound Studies
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