ScoresOfScores
The 'Scores of Scores' lieder corpus encoding project is a major contribution to the OpenScore encoding effort: creating and releasing publicly a large repository of high-quality musical scores which any internet user will be able to download and use as they please.
This is a corpus of French and German songs from the 19th century. We inherited a corpus of vocal lines from Leigh Van Handel et al. whose corpus of French songs is here, and the German songs is here. This project involved converted those files and crowd-sourcing completions of the piano piano parts. A full explanation of the project is provided here
Folders
- KRN-XML: The original vocal line corpus in krn format with corrects various typos which we found in attempting to covert from krn to xml, along with those raw xml conversions.
- Templates: XML and MSCX templates smartened up with code including the hum2XMLFixUp.py file provided here.
- Corpus: The final, completed corpus including crowd-sourced piano lines.