A fundamental concern in music information research is the use of appropriate data sets, research corpora,
from which to perform the needed data processing tasks. These corpora have to be suited for the specific
research problems to be addressed and the design criteria with which to create them is a research task to
which not much attention has been paid. In the CompMusic project we are studying several non-western
art music traditions and a major effort has been the creation of appropriate data ...
A fundamental concern in music information research is the use of appropriate data sets, research corpora,
from which to perform the needed data processing tasks. These corpora have to be suited for the specific
research problems to be addressed and the design criteria with which to create them is a research task to
which not much attention has been paid. In the CompMusic project we are studying several non-western
art music traditions and a major effort has been the creation of appropriate data collections with which to
study and characterise the melodic and rhythmic aspects of these traditions. In this article we go over the
criteria used to create these collections and we describe the specificities of each of the collections gathered.
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