Annotated jingju arias dataset

The Annotated Jingju Arias Dataset is a collection of 34 jingju arias manually segmented in various levels using the software Praat v5.3.53. The selected arias contain samples of the two main shengqiang in jingju, name xipi and erhuang, and the five main role types in terms of singing, namely, dan, jing, laodan, laosheng and xiaosheng. The dataset includes a Praat TextGrid file for each aria with the following tiers (all the annotations are in Chinese): 1. aria: name of the work (one segment for the whole aria) 2. MBID: MusicBrainz ID of the audioi recording (one segment for the whole aria) 3. artist: name of the singing performer (one segment for the whole aria) 4. school: related performing school (one segment for the whole aria) 5. role-type: role type of the singing character (one segment for the whole aria) 6. shengqiang: boundaries and label of the shengqiang performed in the aria (including accompaniment) 7. banshi: boundaries and label of the banshi performed in the aria (including accompaniment) 8. yrics-lines: boundaries and annotation of each line of lyrics 9. lyrics-syllables: boundaries and annotation of each syllable 10. luogu: boundaries and label of each of the performed percussion patterns in the aria The ariasInfo.txt file contains a summary of the contents per aira of the whole dataset.