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distant_listening_corpus - First public release

This corpus has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard.

The publication covers the following public corpora (the DOI links always point at the latest version respectively):

  • J.S. Bach – English and French Suites [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • J.S. Bach – Solo Pieces (A corpus of annotated scores) [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Béla Bartók – 14 Bagatelles, Op. 6 [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • François Couperin – L'art de toucher le clavecin [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Clara Schumann – Lieder [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • François Couperin – Concerts Royaux [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Works for Keyboard [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) – Fiori Musicali, op. 12 (1635) [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Georg Friedrich Händel – Grobschmied Variations (The Harmonious Blacksmith), HWV 430 [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • J.C. Bach – Keyboard Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Heinrich Schütz – Kleine Geistliche Konzerte [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Leopold Koželuch – Piano Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartets [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigals [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat Mater (1736) [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Jacopo Peri – Euridice (1600) [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Ignaz Pleyel – String Quartets [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Francis Poulenc – Mouvements Perpetuels [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Pieces [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Maurice Ravel – Piano Pieces [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Domenico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Franz Schubert – Winterreise [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Suite dansante en jazz [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Robert Schumann – Liederkreis [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Jan Sweelinck – Organ Pieces [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Richard Wagner – Overtures [DOI][repo][ZIP]
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Piano Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]

Hentschel, J., Rammos, Y., Neuwirth, M., Moss, F. C., & Rohrmeier, M. (2024). An annotated corpus of tonal piano music from the long 19th century. Empirical Musicology Review, 18(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v18i1.8903

Hentschel, J., Moss, F. C., Neuwirth, M., & Rohrmeier, M. A. (2021). A semi-automated workflow paradigm for the distributed creation and curation of expert annotations. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR, 262–269. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.5624417

  • Arcangelo Corelli – Trio Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]

Hentschel, J., Neuwirth, M., & Rohrmeier, M. (2021). The Annotated Mozart Sonatas: Score, harmony, and cadence. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 4(1), 67–80. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.63

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonatas [DOI][repo][ZIP]

Neuwirth, M., Harasim, D., Moss, F. C., & Rohrmeier, M. (2018). The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5(July), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2018.00016

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartets [DOI][repo][ZIP]

Getting the data

Data Formats

Each piece in this corpus is represented by five files with identical name prefixes, each in its own folder. For example, the Prélude of J.S. Bach’s first English Suite, BWV 806, has the following files:

  • MS3/BWV806_01_Prelude.mscx: Uncompressed MuseScore 3.6.2 file including the music and annotation labels.
  • notes/BWV806_01_Prelude.notes.tsv: A table of all note heads contained in the score and their relevant features (not each of them represents an onset, some are tied together)
  • measures/BWV806_01_Prelude.measures.tsv: A table with relevant information about the measures in the score.
  • chords/BWV806_01_Prelude.chords.tsv: A table containing layer-wise unique onset positions with the musical markup (such as dynamics, articulation, lyrics, figured bass, etc.).
  • harmonies/BWV806_01_Prelude.harmonies.tsv: A table of the included harmony labels (including cadences and phrases) with their positions in the score.

Each TSV file comes with its own JSON descriptor that describes the meanings and datatypes of the columns ("fields") it contains, follows the Frictionless specification, and can be used to validate and correctly load the described file.

Opening Scores

After navigating to your local copy, you can open the scores in the folder MS3 with the free and open source score editor MuseScore. Please note that the scores have been edited, annotated and tested with MuseScore 3.6.2. MuseScore 4 has since been released which renders them correctly but cannot store them back in the same format.

Opening TSV files in a spreadsheet

Tab-separated value (TSV) files are like Comma-separated value (CSV) files and can be opened with most modern text editors. However, for correctly displaying the columns, you might want to use a spreadsheet or an addon for your favourite text editor. When you use a spreadsheet such as Excel, it might annoy you by interpreting fractions as dates. This can be circumvented by using Data --> From Text/CSV or the free alternative LibreOffice Calc. Other than that, TSV data can be loaded with every modern programming language.

Loading TSV files in Python

Since the TSV files contain null values, lists, fractions, and numbers that are to be treated as strings, you may want to use this code to load any TSV files related to this repository (provided you're doing it in Python). After a quick pip install -U ms3 (requires Python 3.10 or later) you'll be able to load any TSV like this:

```python import ms3

labels = ms3.loadtsv("harmonies/BWV80601Prelude.harmonies.tsv") notes = ms3.loadtsv("notes/BWV80601Prelude.notes.tsv") ```

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.

Cite as

Johannes Hentschel, Yannis Rammos, Markus Neuwirth, & Martin Rohrmeier. (2025). The Distant Listening Corpus (A corpus of annotated scores) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13844105

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).


Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

distant_listening_corpus - Adds Monteverdi, updates all submodules


Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

distant_listening_corpus - Updates Zenodo metadata


Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

distant_listening_corpus - First semi-public version of the DLC

This version has been released for review purposes: The datapackage includes the complete corpus data, but the unpublished sub-corpora remain private at this point. Also, this is the first release to integrate with Zenodo, which will mint the DOI for this dataset.


Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

distant_listening_corpus - Includes pieces that had been missing

Updated version_release workflow to v3.1.

This release has an additional, manually created datapackage that omits the three Frescobaldi pieces annotated in e.phrygian because their expanded harmonies tables are incomplete. This package was created using the command 

ms3 transform -M -N -X -D -e "12.31|12.33|12.45"

using ms3 2.2.2.post1.dev7+gdfeb32d.


Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

distant_listening_corpus - Removed unannotated Debussy repos

Also, the Frescobaldi scores were updated. One was missing its global key.


Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

distant_listening_corpus - First release


Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago