ChoraleBricks: A Modular Multitrack Dataset for Wind Music Research

Description

Technical info (English)

01_AudioAndAnnotations:

• Each chorale is in a single folder, we take Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden as an example to explain the structure:
  • alignments/: (for each track)
    • Custom CSV export for audio-score alignments, most import columns:
    • t_start: Start of the note in seconds
    • t_dur: Note duration in seconds
    • start_meas: Start measure position, encoded as a real number with a fixed precision of three digits. The integer component indicates the measure, while the fractional component represents the relative position within the measure. An example can be found in the corresponding TISMIR paper.
    • end_meas: End position of the note, same encoding as start_meas.
  • annotations/: (for each track)
    • 01_as.sv: Original Sonic Visualiser (SV) file
    • 01_as_f0.csv: Raw SV export of the F0 annotations
    • 01_as_notes.csv: Raw SV export of the note annotations
    • 01_as_f0_filled.csv: Processed F0 annotations where the unvoiced frames are represented by zeros (recommended F0 annotation file)
  • tracks/: Raw tracks as exported from the Digital Audio Workstation (Apple Logic) *)
  • tracks_normalized/: Tracks after normalization with Reaper (cf. for details: https://audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-ChoraleBricks/dataset-extension)
  • Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden.mei: Original score engraving
  • Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden.musicxml: Export from MEI to MusicXML
  • Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden.mid: MIDI representation of the score
  • Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden.csv: Custom CSV export, same contents as the MIDI but as CSV
  • Crueger_AufAufMeinHerzMitFreuden.RPP: Reaper project used for track normalization
  • metadata_performers.csv: Additional information about the performers (e.g., birth year)
  • metadata_songs.csv: Additional information about the songs (e.g., composer)
  • metadata_tracks.csv: Additional information about the tracks (e.g., performer, instrument, etc.) <-Main metadata table
  • metadata_video_offsets.csv: Offsets to combine audio and conducting videos (preparatory beats are not in the audio, but in the videos)

*) The Apple Logic project files can be made available upon request.

02_ConductingVideos:

• Conducting video for each chorale
• Encoded with H264
• No audio track attached
• The offsets (in seconds) to the audio recordings are available in 01_AudioAndAnnotations/video_offsets.csv.

Notes (English)