Chinese Traditional Opera database for Music Genre Recognition

Abstract

This paper introduces the database of Traditional Chinese Opera for Music Genre Recognition, which is still a gap in our knowledge. The database contains different songs which are from the 14 most popular kinds of Chinese Opera, including Sichuan Opera, Beijing Opera, etc. Each Opera is then annotated between music, song and speech which are identified by acoustic waveform and spectral analysis. This breakdown is used to distinguish different types of operas. The database can be used for research concerning music genre recognition. Moreover this database can be used to analyze the relationship between the operas by comparing acoustic attributes, which can provide new perspectives and evidence for research in population migration, cultural evolution and other social investigation study in the historical development of Chinese opera.