Note-Level Transcription of Choral Music
Huiran Yu (University of Rochester)*, Zhiyao Duan (University of Rochester)
Keywords: Applications -> music retrieval systems; Evaluation, datasets, and reproducibility -> novel datasets and use cases; Knowledge-driven approaches to MIR -> machine learning/artificial intelligence for music, MIR tasks -> music transcription and annotation
Choral music is a musical activity with one of the largest participant bases, yet it has drawn little attention from automatic music transcription research. The main reasons we argue are due to the lack of data and technical difficulties arise from diverse acoustic conditions and unique properties of choral singing. To address these challenges, in this paper we introduce YouChorale, a novel choral music dataset in a cappella setting curated from the Internet. YouChorale contains 496 real-world recordings in diverse acoustic configurations of choral music from over 100 composers as well as their MIDI scores. In this paper we also propose a Transformer-based framework for note-level transcription of choral music. This framework bypasses the frame-level processing and directly produces a sequence of notes with associated timestamps. Trained on YouChorale, our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance in choral music transcription, marking a significant advancement in the field.
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