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SymbTr

Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Data Collection

Given the lack of machine readable symbolic data to perform computational studies of Turkish Makam music, we have put together a collection of machine readable symbolic scores, SymbTr, which contains data in text, MusicXML, PDF, MIDI and mu2 formats. This is raw data drawn from reliable sources that consists of musical pieces from Turkish art and folk music. Special care has been taken to select works covering a broad historical time span while being works that are still performed today.

Please cite the following publication if you use the data collection in your work:
Karaosmanoğlu, M. K. (2012). A Turkish makam music symbolic database for music information retrieval: SymbTr. Proc. Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR).

What is new in SymbTr v2.1

  1. Merged duplicate makam, usul, form and composer names
  2. If the makam, form, usul and the composers are identical for two distinct compositions they are indexed with numbers in the end of the "lyrics" fields
  3. Fixed typos in the score names
  4. Corrected the erroneously associated composers in several compositions
  5. Fixed errors in the field separations and the formatting ("--"s)
  6. Removed special characters in the filenames such as ' and .

What is in SymbTr v2.0

  1. 2200 pieces: 150 distinct makams, about 100 usuls, 50 forms, 865,000 musical notes, 80 hours nominal playback time.
  2. MusicXML and mu2 formats: MusicXML is a standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music, which can be read by popular music notation software such as MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius. mu2 is a format, which can be read by Mus2, the microtonal notation software.
  3. Offset column: It shows end time of the note in terms of beat unit. If there is an integer value in this column, it means note is at the end of the measure which number is that of the value.
  4. Rest marks: In SymbTr v1.0.0 all rest durations were added on the previous note’s duration, in the sense that LNS parameter represents the percentage of notes’ durations. Whereas in v2, the rest marks on the measure boundaries are represented separately, by written '-1' in KomaAE and Koma53 columns.
  5. Usul alterations: Code 51 in a line represents the point at which passing on a new usul. This kind of records contain time signature of the new usul in Pay (numerator) and Payda (denominator) columns, and the name of it in the Soz1 (syllable) column.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where are the PDFs?

Adding the PDFs to the repository would make it fairly bulky. You can download the PDFs from the CompMusic website (http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/140). You can also follow the link in the corresponding /PDF folder to download the files.

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