Basso Continuo Goes Digital: Collecting and Aligning a Symbolic Dataset of Continuo Performance
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10511678" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10511678 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/16946799" target="_blank" >https://zenodo.org/records/16946799</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16946799" target="_blank" >10.5281/zenodo.16946799</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Basso Continuo Goes Digital: Collecting and Aligning a Symbolic Dataset of Continuo Performance
Original language description
Basso continuo is the baroque accompaniment practice of improvising harmony and upper voices upon a notated bass line. The performance – "realization" – of continuo is not just historical heritage, but a living cornerstone of the Historically Informed Performance movement. However, in MIR it has received little attention and its "living" side has been overlooked entirely. We present a pilot dataset consisting of 6 hours of basso continuo performances in 175 MIDI recordings, which is the first of its kind. To connect contemporary practice to musicological knowledge, and to enable comparing the performances themselves, one must align performances to the notated bass lines. We analyze the challenges that continuo alignment presents, and evaluate baseline two-step alignment using state-of-the-art variants of HMMs and DTW. Whereas the bass line is aligned well, assigning individual notes of the realization to the score will require further attention.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH23_025%2F0008691" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008691: Human-centred AI for a Sustainable and Adaptive Society</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů