The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus

Gotham, Mark; Redbond, Maureen; Bower, Bruno; Jonas, Peter

Abstract

The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus is a new dataset of historic works for string quartets, encoded by a dedicated team of volunteers, and released freely for all use cases (CC0). In creating this corpus, we built on the experience amassed during the ‘OpenScore Lieder Corpus’ (Gotham and Jonas, MEC 2021), however, the quartets presented some additional challenges including the need for more significant editorial intervention. Here we report on the size and contents of the corpus (more than 100 full quartets by over 40 composers), we discuss the editorial-musicological aspects of producing modern playing scores from ambiguous or incomplete source material, and we suggest some prospective use cases for this dataset in music information retrieval (MIR).

Citation

Gotham, M., Redbond, M., Bower, B., & Jonas, P. (2023, November). The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus. Presented at DLfM 2023: 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, Milan, Italy

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: DLfM 2023: 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
• Start Date: Nov 10, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 10, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-11
• Deposit Date: Nov 3, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 14, 2023
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 49-57
• Book Title: DLfM '23: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
• ISBN: 9798400708336
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625155
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1876229