Real World Computing Music Database (RWC)

title

Real World Computing Music Database (RWC)

homepage

https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/

description

The RWC (Real World Computing) Music Database is a copyright-cleared music database (DB) that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research. It was built by the RWC Music Database Sub-Working Group of the Real World Computing Partnership (RWCP) of Japan. It contains six original collections: the Popular Music Database (100 songs), Royalty-Free Music Database (15 songs), Classical Music Database (50 pieces), Jazz Music Database (50 pieces), Music Genre Database (100 pieces), and Musical Instrument Sound Database (50 instruments). For all 315 musical pieces performed and recorded for the database, the original audio signals are attached, corresponding to standard MIDI files, and text files of lyrics (for songs). For the 50 instruments, individual sounds were captured at half-tone intervals with several variations of playing styles, dynamics, instrument manufacturers, and musicians.

type

Dataset

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

developers

task or research field

music analysis

music annotation

technical features

Serves machine-readable music data

Offers playable music records

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

type of collected resources

Score

Audio

category of data collected

Descriptive Metadata

Metadata

Symbolic

Media

music data features

Metadata

Harmony

Descriptive Metadata

Lyrics

Melody

Rhythm

collection size

<1000

data license

Not specified

data size

Unknown


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1645599195-6993346