Dataset Card for Chinese Musical Instruments Timbre Evaluation Database

Dataset Summary

This database contains subjective timbre evaluation scores of 16 subjective timbre evaluation terms (such as bright, dark, raspy) on 37 Chinese national terms given by 14 participants in a subjective evaluation experiment.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Chinese Musical Instruments Timbre Evaluation

Languages

Chinese, English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

.zip(.wav), .csv

Data Fields

Traditional Chinese instruments

Data Splits

Instruments

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Lack of a dataset for Chinese musical instruments timbre evaluation

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Zhaorui Liu, Monan Zhou

Who are the source language producers?

Students from CCMUSIC

Annotations

Annotation process

Subjective timbre evaluation scores of 16 subjective timbre evaluation terms (such as bright, dark, raspy) on 37 Chinese national terms given by 14 participants in a subjective evaluation experiment

Who are the annotators?

Students from CCMUSIC

Personal and Sensitive Information

None

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

Promoting the development of AI in the music industry

Discussion of Biases

Only for Chinese traditional instruments

Other Known Limitations

Less data

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Zijin Li

Licensing Information

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 CCMUSIC

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Citation Information

@dataset{zhaorui_liu_2021_5676893,
  author       = {Zhaorui Liu, Monan Zhou, Shenyang Xu and Zijin Li},
  title        = {{Music Data Sharing Platform for Computational Musicology Research (CCMUSIC DATASET)}},
  month        = nov,
  year         = 2021,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {1.1},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.5676893},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5676893}
}

Contributions

Provide a dataset for Chinese musical instruments timbre evaluation