389_chorale_settings
Gertim Alberda's digital edition of the 1898 Breitkopf print "389 Choralgesänge", republished for music research
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Gertim Alberda's digital edition of the 1898 Breitkopf print "389 Choralgesänge", republished for music research
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- Host: GitHub
- Owner: johentsch
- License: other
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://gertim-alberda.com/chorales/
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README.md
A digital edition of the 389 Chorale Settings (Choralgesänge) by J.S. Bach
This repository has been made possible by Gertim Alberda, who ‘manually’ digitalized all the 389 Bach 4-voice chorales, as published by the Breitkopf edition 'nr. 3765'. For this he meticulously transcribed all the notes and lyrics of that edition, by using the music notation editor MuseScore (MS). He checked it against both BGA and NBA (Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe and Neue Bach-Ausgabe), if there was any reasonable doubt for it, and even found and improved a couple of mistakes that way (<10). Solely for performance reasons, he also applied many hidden (grey) extras in MS to make the scores and its phrasing sound as realistic as possible; hidden fermatas, tempo changes, breath pauses, phrasing, note-cutbacks, etc. This was all done to 'humanize' the playback and make it sound like a real choir performance (without words), and given the technical limitations at that time (2016-2018). Also see the Info tab on his website.
The full corpus resides on Gertim Alberda’s dedicated website. The scores there have synchronized play back (synthesized and human performances) available and can be downloaded in various formats (mscz/xml/midi/mp3/pdf). Here is an example of his playback page. His intention is to have only human performances available (YT videos and/or mp3’s) for all the scores, but that is still an ongoing process (see the changelog on his website). He has agreed to share his MS files under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The license prohibits the use of the scores for any commercial purpose, including the training of machine learning models for use in commercial products.
Contents
The "mother of all datasets" is available as two versions, each contained in a separate folder:
original_complete: Gertim Alberda's original MuseScore files converted to uncompressed MuseScore 3 format (.mscx)vocal_parts_only: Alternative version of the dataset containing no instrumental parts.
Score-to-audio alignments
Version 2.3 introduces an additional set of tables of notes in the subfolder
vocal_parts_only/note_alignments. They correspond to unfolded/expanded
versions of the 303 chorale settings that have a counterpart in and have been aligned with the
recordings made by the Chamber Choir Of Europe under Nicol Matt in 1999 (e.g., CDs 122 through 127
(six CDs) of the release https://musicbrainz.org/release/5582b212-aea7-4355-8c4c-531ed438e5fc).
Unfolded/expanded, here, means that they correspond to a "playthrough" respecting repeat signs and
first/second endings.
This representation is a prerequisite for aligning the notes with the corresponding sounding events
in the recordings.
First, the MusicBrainz recording IDs contained in the column mb:recording of the file
metadata.tsv were used to map the 303 scores (or rather, their unfolded notes TSVs) to the
respective audio files (which are commercial and cannot be provided).
Silence at the end of the audio files has been truncated beforehand using a 50 ms & -65 dB threshold.
Then, the latest version of the synctoolbox (1.3.2) and
this Python script
was used to compute start and end points of each note. The timecodes were added as two additional
columns, start and end, to the unfolded notes TSVs.
An easy way to verify them (if you happen to have the recording of the Chamber Choir of Europe)
is to make a copy of the relevant TSV file in vocal_parts_only/note_alignments,
keeping only the last six columns (at the very least, midi, start, and end).
This is because the Sonic Visualizer can only load the first few
columns of a TSV/CSV file.
Then you can load the aligned notes into the Sonic Visualizer like so:
Version history
See the GitHub releases.
Questions, Suggestions, Corrections, Bug Reports
Please create an issue and/or feel free to fork and submit pull requests.
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Cite as
Alberda, G. & Hentschel, J. (2024). A digital edition of the 389 Chorale Settings (Choralgesänge) by J.S. Bach (v2.3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11358762
File naming convention
The chorales are named B### where ### is the chorale number with leading zeros.
The numbers are in accordance with the Breitkopf edition which orders them alphabetically by title.
Score properties
This table keeps track of certain characteristics of the scores.
Measure numbers: In these scores the measure numbers changed fromv1.0tov2.3.Parts: These scores contain instrumental parts in theoriginal_completeversion, which have been removed in thevocal_parts_onlyversion.Instrument staves: The IDs of those staves that contain instrumental parts in theoriginal_completeversion which have been removed in thevocal_parts_onlyversion. 1 stands for the uppermost staff. Chorales where the upper staff was removed are marked with a bold 1; these might be missing markup that is typically attached to the upper score, e.g. tempo markings.Merge: In the marked chorales, the four voices are written in individual staves in theoriginal_completeversion but have been merged into two staves in thevocal_parts_onlyversion for homogeneity.B199is the only one that remains to be typeset with four staves because it is not homophone.Cue notes: In the marked chorales, the vocal staves contain cue note in theoriginal_completeversion which have been removed for thevocal_parts_onlyversion.
| Chorale | Measure
numbers | Parts | Instrument staves | Merge | Cue notes |
|---------|--------------------|-------|-------------------------------------------------|--------------|-----------|
| B001 | | | 3 | | |
| B002 | | | 3 | | |
| B003 | | | 3 | | |
| B004 | | | 3 | | x |
| B005 | x | | 3 | | |
| B006 | x | | 3 | | |
| B007 | x | | 3 | | |
| B008 | | | 3 | | |
| B009 | | | 3 | | |
| B010 | | | 3 | | |
| B011 | | | 3 | | x |
| B012 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B013 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B014 | x | x | 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | | x |
| B015 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B016 | x | | 3, 4, 5 | | x |
| B017 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B018 | | | 3 | | |
| B019 | | | 3 | | |
| B020 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B021 | x | | 3 | | |
| B022 | | | 3 | | |
| B023 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B024 | | | 3 | | |
| B025 | | | 3 | | |
| B026 | | | 3 | | x |
| B027 | | | 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 | | x |
| B028 | x | | 3 | | |
| B029 | x | | 3 | | |
| B030 | x | | 3 | | |
| B031 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | x |
| B032 | x | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B033 | | | 3 | | |
| B034 | | | 3 | | |
| B035 | | | 3 | | |
| B036 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B037 | | | 3 | | |
| B038 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B039 | x | | 3 | | |
| B040 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B041 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B042 | | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B043 | x | | 3 | | |
| B044 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B045 | | | 3 | | x |
| B046 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B047 | | | 3 | | |
| B048 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B049 | | | 3 | | x |
| B050 | | | 3 | | |
| B051 | | | 3, 4, 5 | | |
| B052 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B053 | x | | 3 | | |
| B054 | x | | 3 | | |
| B055 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B056 | | | 3 | | |
| B057 | | | 3 | | x |
| B058 | | | 3 | | |
| B059 | | | 3 | | |
| B060 | | | 3 | | |
| B061 | | | 3 | | |
| B062 | x | | 3 | | |
| B063 | | | 3 | | |
| B064 | | | 3 | | |
| B065 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B066 | | | 3 | | |
| B067 | x | | 2, 4 | | |
| B068 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B069 | x | | 3 | | |
| B070 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B071 | | | 3 | | |
| B072 | | | 3 | | x |
| B073 | x | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B074 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B075 | x | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B076 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B077 | x | | 3 | | |
| B078 | x | | 3 | | |
| B079 | | | 3 | | |
| B080 | x | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B081 | | | 3 | | |
| B082 | | x | 5-23 | (1,2)(3,4) | |
| B083 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B084 | | | 3 | | |
| B085 | | | 3 | | |
| B086 | x | | 3 | | |
| B087 | x | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B088 | x | | 3 | | |
| B089 | x | | 1, 4 | | x |
| B090 | x | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B091 | | | 3 | | x |
| B092 | x | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B093 | x | | | | |
| B094 | | | 3 | | |
| B095 | x | | 3 | | |
| B096 | x | | 3 | | |
| B097 | x | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 | | x |
| B098 | | | 3 | | |
| B099 | | | 1, 2, 5 | | |
| B100 | | | 3 | | x |
| B101 | | | 3 | | |
| B102 | | | 3 | | x |
| B103 | | | 3 | | x |
| B104 | | | 3 | | x |
| B105 | | | 2, 4 | | |
| B106 | x | | 2, 4 | | |
| B107 | | | | | |
| B108 | | | 3 | | x |
| B109 | | | 1, 2, 5, 6 | | |
| B110 | | | 3 | | x |
| B111 | x | | 3 | | |
| B112 | x | | 2, 4, 5 | | |
| B113 | | | 3 | | |
| B114 | | | 3 | | x |
| B115 | | | 3 | | |
| B116 | | | 3 | | |
| B117 | | | 3 | | |
| B118 | | | 3 | | |
| B119 | x | | 3 | | |
| B120 | | | 3 | | |
| B121 | | | 3, 4, 5 | | x |
| B122 | | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B123 | | | 3 | | |
| B124 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B125 | x | | 3 | | |
| B126 | x | | 3 | | |
| B127 | x | | 3 | | |
| B128 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B129 | | | 3 | | |
| B130 | | | 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 | | |
| B131 | | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 | | x |
| B132 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B133 | x | | 3 | | |
| B134 | | | 3 | | |
| B135 | | | 3 | | x |
| B136 | | | 3 | | |
| B137 | | | 3 | | |
| B138 | | | 3 | | |
| B139 | | | 3 | | |
| B140 | x | | 3 | | |
| B141 | x | | 3 | | |
| B142 | x | | 3 | | |
| B143 | x | | 3 | | |
| B144 | x | | 3 | | |
| B145 | | | 3 | | |
| B146 | | | 3 | | |
| B147 | | | 3 | | |
| B148 | | | 3 | | |
| B149 | x | | 3 | | |
| B150 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B151 | | | 3 | | |
| B152 | x | | 3 | | |
| B153 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B154 | x | | 3 | | |
| B155 | x | | 1, 4 | | x |
| B156 | x | | 3 | | |
| B157 | x | | 3 | | |
| B158 | x | | 3 | | |
| B159 | x | | 3 | | |
| B160 | x | | 3 | | |
| B161 | x | | 1, 2, 5 | | |
| B162 | x | | 3 | | |
| B163 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B164 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B165 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B166 | | | 3 | | x |
| B167 | | | 3 | | |
| B168 | | | 3 | | x |
| B169 | | | 3 | | x |
| B170 | | | 3 | | |
| B171 | | | 3 | | |
| B172 | x | | 3 | | |
| B173 | | | 3 | | |
| B174 | x | | 3 | | |
| B175 | | | 3 | | |
| B176 | x | | 3 | | |
| B177 | x | | 3 | | |
| B178 | x | | 3 | | |
| B179 | | x | 3 | | |
| B180 | | | 3 | | |
| B181 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B182 | | | 3 | | |
| B183 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B184 | x | | 1, 4 | | x |
| B185 | | x | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B186 | | | 3 | | |
| B187 | | | 3 | | |
| B188 | | | 3 | | x |
| B189 | | | 3 | | |
| B190 | | | 3 | | |
| B191 | | | | | x |
| B192 | | | 3 | | x |
| B193 | | | 3 | | |
| B194 | | | 3 | | x |
| B195 | | x | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B196 | | | 3 | | |
| B197 | | | 3 | | |
| B198 | | | 2, 4 | | |
| B199 | | | 5 | | |
| B200 | | | 3 | | |
| B201 | | | 3 | | x |
| B202 | | | 3 | | |
| B203 | x | | 3 | | |
| B204 | x | | 3 | | |
| B205 | x | x | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15 | | |
| B206 | | | 3 | | |
| B207 | | | 3 | | |
| B208 | | | 3 | | x |
| B209 | | | 3 | | |
| B210 | | | 3 | | |
| B211 | | | 3 | | |
| B212 | x | | 1, 4 | | x |
| B213 | | | 3 | | |
| B214 | | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B215 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B216 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B217 | x | | 3 | | |
| B218 | | | 3 | | |
| B219 | | | 1, 4 | | |
| B220 | | x | 1, 2, 5 | | |
| B221 | | | 3 | | |
| B222 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B223 | | | 3 | | x |
| B224 | | | 3 | | x |
| B225 | | | 3 | | |
| B226 | x | | 3 | | |
| B227 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B228 | | | 3 | | |
| B229 | | | 3 | | |
| B230 | | x | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 | | x |
| B231 | | | 3 | | |
| B232 | | | 3 | | |
| B233 | | | 3 | | |
| B234 | | | 3 | | |
| B235 | | | 3 | | x |
| B236 | | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 | | |
| B237 | x | | 3 | | |
| B238 | x | | 3 | | |
| B239 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B240 | | | 3 | | |
| B241 | | | 3 | | |
| B242 | | | 3 | | |
| B243 | | x | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 | | x |
| B244 | | | 3 | | x |
| B245 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B246 | | | 3 | | x |
| B247 | | | 3 | | x |
| B248 | | | 3 | | |
| B249 | | | 3 | | |
| B250 | | | 3 | | |
| B251 | | | 3 | | |
| B252 | | | 3 | | |
| B253 | x | | 3 | | |
| B254 | | | 3 | | |
| B255 | | | 3 | | |
| B256 | | | 3 | | x |
| B257 | x | | 3 | | |
| B258 | x | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 | | x |
| B259 | x | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 | | |
| B260 | | | 3 | | |
| B261 | x | | 3 | | |
| B262 | x | | 3 | | |
| B263 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B264 | | | 3 | | x |
| B265 | | | 3 | | x |
| B266 | | | 3 | | x |
| B267 | | | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 | | |
| B268 | | | 1, 4 | | |
| B269 | x | | 3 | | |
| B270 | x | | 3 | | |
| B271 | x | | 3 | | |
| B272 | x | x | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 | | |
| B273 | x | | 3 | | |
| B274 | | | 3 | | |
| B275 | | | 3 | | |
| B276 | x | | 3 | | |
| B277 | | | 3 | | |
| B278 | | | 3 | | x |
| B279 | | | 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | | |
| B280 | | | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 | | |
| B281 | | | 3 | | x |
| B282 | x | | 3 | | |
| B283 | x | | 3, 4 | | x |
| B284 | | | 3 | | |
| B285 | x | | 3 | | |
| B286 | x | | 3 | | |
| B287 | | | 3 | | |
| B288 | | | 3 | | |
| B289 | | | 3 | | |
| B290 | | | 3 | | |
| B291 | | | 3 | | |
| B292 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B293 | | | 3 | | |
| B294 | | | 3 | | |
| B295 | | | 3 | | x |
| B296 | | | 3 | | |
| B297 | | | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 | | |
| B298 | | | 3 | | |
| B299 | | | 3 | | |
| B300 | | | 3 | | |
| B301 | | | 3 | | |
| B302 | | | 3 | | |
| B303 | | | 3 | | |
| B304 | | | 3 | | |
| B305 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B306 | | | 3 | | |
| B307 | | | 3 | | |
| B308 | | | 3 | | |
| B309 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B310 | | | 3 | | |
| B311 | | | 3 | | |
| B312 | | | 3 | | x |
| B313 | x | | 3 | | |
| B314 | x | | 3 | | |
| B315 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B316 | | | 3 | | |
| B317 | | | 3 | | x |
| B318 | | | 3 | | |
| B319 | | | 3 | | x |
| B320 | | | 3 | | x |
| B321 | | | 3 | | x |
| B322 | | | 3 | | x |
| B323 | | | 3 | | x |
| B324 | x | | 3 | | |
| B325 | | | 3 | | |
| B326 | x | | 3 | | |
| B327 | | | 3 | | |
| B328 | x | | 3 | | |
| B329 | | | 3, 4 | | |
| B330 | | | 3 | | x |
| B331 | | | 3 | | |
| B332 | | | 3 | | |
| B333 | | | 3 | | |
| B334 | | | 3 | | |
| B335 | | | 3 | | x |
| B336 | | | 3 | | |
| B337 | | | 3 | | |
| B338 | x | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
| B339 | x | | 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | | x |
| B340 | x | | 1, 4 | | |
| B341 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B342 | x | | 3 | | |
| B343 | x | | 3 | | |
| B344 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B345 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B346 | x | | 3 | | |
| B347 | x | | 3 | | |
| B348 | x | | 3 | | |
| B349 | | | 3 | | |
| B350 | | | 2, 4 | | |
| B351 | | | 3 | | |
| B352 | | | 3 | | |
| B353 | | | 3 | | |
| B354 | | | 3 | | |
| B355 | | | 3 | | |
| B356 | | | 1, 4 | | |
| B357 | x | | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | | |
| B358 | | | 3 | | |
| B359 | | | 3 | | |
| B360 | | | 3 | | |
| B361 | | | | | |
| B362 | | | 3 | | |
| B363 | | | 3 | | |
| B364 | | | 3 | | |
| B365 | | | 3 | | |
| B366 | | | 3 | | |
| B367 | x | | 3 | | |
| B368 | x | | 3 | | |
| B369 | x | | 3, 4 | | |
| B370 | x | | 3 | | |
| B371 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B372 | x | | 3 | | |
| B373 | x | | 3 | | |
| B374 | | | 3 | | |
| B375 | | | 3 | | x |
| B376 | x | | 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | | |
| B377 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B378 | x | | 1-7, 12-21 | (8,9)(10,11) | |
| B379 | | | 3 | | |
| B380 | x | | 3 | | |
| B381 | | | 3 | | x |
| B382 | | | 3 | | |
| B383 | x | | 3 | | |
| B384 | x | | 3 | | x |
| B385 | x | | 3 | | |
| B386 | x | | 3 | | |
| B387 | | | 1, 4 | | |
| B388 | x | | 3 | | |
| B389 | | | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | | |
Owner
- Name: Johannes Hentschel
- Login: johentsch
- Kind: user
- Location: Lausanne
- Company: @DCMLab
- Repositories: 3
- Profile: https://github.com/johentsch
Music education, music theory, and Romance studies in Freiburg i. Br., Lübeck, and Helsinki. PhD candidate @ Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab @ EPFL
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "A digital edition of the 389 Chorale Settings (Choralgesänge) by J.S. Bach"
abstract: "Gertim Alberda's digital edition of the 1898 Breitkopf print \"389 Choralgesänge\", republished for music research."
type: dataset
authors:
- given-names: Gertim
family-names: Alberda
email: gertim.alberda@gmail.com
- given-names: Johannes
family-names: Hentschel
email: johannes.hentschel@epfl.ch
affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-9545"
version: v2.3
date-released: 2025-02-16
identifiers:
- type: doi
value: 10.5281/zenodo.11358761
keywords:
- "music research"
- "music theory"
- "music analysis"
- "music history"
- "corpus studies"
- corpora
- "symbolic dataset"
- scores
license: "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License"
repository: https://github.com/johentsch/389_chorale_settings
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