Jingju a Cappella Recordings Collection

The Jingju a Cappella Recordings Collection (JaCRC) is part of the Jingju Music Corpus created in the CompMusic project at the Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (MTG). The JaCRC was created for different research tasks, mostly concerning melodic characteristics of jingju arias and pronunciation in jingju, and parts of the collection have been used in several publications. The JaCRC contains 314 recordings of jingju a cappella singing, plus 76 recordings of the jinghu accompaniment for their corresponding vocal tracks. Except for 53 of them, all of the recordings were newly created for this collection. The JaCRC also contains the manual segmentation of 217 vocal recordings and lyrics files for 156, 67 of which include annotations for start and end of each lyrics line in a related music score. The dataset is released under a Creative Commons license.