Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Data Collection

Link

github.com

Status

active

How they describe themselves

Turkish makam music symbolic database for music information retrieval

Blurb

The Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Data Collection (SymbTr) is designed for analysis of encoded repertories and is currently the largest repertory of its kind. It offers 2,200 pieces from 155 makams, 88 usuls, 56 forms, about 865,000 musical notes (80 hours of nominal playback time). Makam is a system of intervalic relationships and melodic development types widely used in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic music. This set of encoded scores, based on pieces from Turkish art and folk music, is based on authoritative sources. It covers a broad historical time span among pieces which are still performed in today.

Creator(s)

M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu

Tools used

MusicXML, MIDI, mu2

Code repository

doi.org