Jingju Audio Recordings Collection

The Jingju Audio Recordings Collection (JARC) is part of the Jingju Music Corpus created in the CompMusic project. It is formed by 91 commercial CDs. The purpose of the JARC is the computational research of singing melody in jingju arias from the traditional repertoire (传统戏). Therefore, the JARC is comprised of CDs consisting of aria compilations (excluding recordings of full plays or of arias from modern plays (现代戏). In order to apply computational techniques, the CDs were selected with the required recording quality. Therefore, the JARC contains releases from the 1980s onwards.