Abstract
The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets
Highlights
This report describes a publicly available dataset of harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets together with a new annotation scheme
The ABC consists of 15,806 measures (240,462 notes) of music, which were annotated with 27,962 chord labels (1,753 unique)
To facilitate the usage of our dataset of harmonic labels, we provide TSV files that contain the extracted annotations as dataframes
Summary
This report describes a publicly available dataset of harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets together with a new annotation scheme. Despite the availability of raw audio material and the recent research initiatives mentioned above, digital musicology still lacks large labeled corpora combining score and harmonic annotations These corpora are necessary as ground truth data for the minute investigation of structural dimensions of music such as harmony. Our research addresses this gap by providing a large dataset of expert-generated harmonic labels in the stylistically coherent corpus of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets, the Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC) This corpus will be useful for the research purposes of empirical and digital musicology, such as deepening the understanding of musical syntax, voice-leading schemata, form, and style, as well as for the development and evaluation of computational models of harmony and musical structure in general
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