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CCOM-HuQin: an Annotated Multimodal Chinese Fiddle Performance Dataset
HuQin is a family of traditional Chinese bowed string instruments. Playing
techniques(PTs) embodied in various playing styles add abundant emotional
coloring and aesthetic feelings to HuQin performance. The complex applied
techniques make HuQin music a challenging source for fundamental MIR tasks such
as pitch analysis, transcription and score-audio alignment. In this paper, we
present a multimodal performance dataset of HuQin music that contains
audio-visual recordings of 11,992 single PT clips and 57 annotated musical
pieces of classical excerpts. We systematically describe the HuQin PT taxonomy
based on musicological theory and practical use cases. Then we introduce the
dataset creation methodology and highlight the annotation principles featuring
PTs. We analyze the statistics in different aspects to demonstrate the variety
of PTs played in HuQin subcategories and perform preliminary experiments to
show the potential applications of the dataset in various MIR tasks and
cross-cultural music studies. Finally, we propose future work to be extended on
the dataset.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figure