A Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Database for Music Information Retrieval: SymbTr
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Turkish makam music needs a comprehensive database for public consumption, to be used in MIR. This article introduces SymbTr, a Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Representation Database, aimed at filling this void. SymbTr consists of musical information in text, PDF, and MIDI formats. Raw data, drawn from reliable sources, and consisting of 1,700 musical pieces in Turkish art and folk music was processed featuring distinct examples in 155 diverse makams, 100 usuls and 48 forms. Special care was devoted to selection of works that scatter across a broad historical time span and were among those still performed today. Total number of musical notes in these pieces was 630,000, corresponding to a nominal playback time of 72 hours. Synthesized sounds particular to Turkish makam music were used in MIDI playback, and transcription/playback errors were corrected by input from experts. Symbolic representation data, open to the public, is output from a computer program developed exclusively for Turkish makam music. SymbTr was designed as a wholesome representation of aforementioned distinct auditory and visual features that distinguish Turkish makam music from other music genres. This article explains the database format in detail, and also provides, through examples, statistical information on pitch/interval allocation and distribution.
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