Zema Dataset: A Comprehensive Study of Yaredawi Zema with a Focus on Horologium Chants
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| author | Muluneh, Mequanent Argaw Peng, Yan-Tsung Degife, Worku Abebe Tadesse, Nigussie Abate Demeku, Aknachew Mebreku Su, Li |
| author_facet | Muluneh, Mequanent Argaw Peng, Yan-Tsung Degife, Worku Abebe Tadesse, Nigussie Abate Demeku, Aknachew Mebreku Su, Li |
| contents | Computational music research plays a critical role in advancing music production, distribution, and understanding across various musical styles worldwide. Despite the immense cultural and religious significance, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) chants are relatively underrepresented in computational music research. This paper contributes to this field by introducing a new dataset specifically tailored for analyzing EOTC chants, also known as Yaredawi Zema. This work provides a comprehensive overview of a 10-hour dataset, 369 instances, creation, and curation process, including rigorous quality assurance measures. Our dataset has a detailed word-level temporal boundary and reading tone annotation along with the corresponding chanting mode label of audios. Moreover, we have also identified the chanting options associated with multiple chanting notations in the manuscript by annotating them accordingly. Our goal in making this dataset available to the public 1 is to encourage more research and study of EOTC chants, including lyrics transcription, lyric-to-audio alignment, and music generation tasks. Such research work will advance knowledge and efforts to preserve this distinctive liturgical music, a priceless cultural artifact for the Ethiopian people. |
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| spellingShingle | Zema Dataset: A Comprehensive Study of Yaredawi Zema with a Focus on Horologium Chants Muluneh, Mequanent Argaw Peng, Yan-Tsung Degife, Worku Abebe Tadesse, Nigussie Abate Demeku, Aknachew Mebreku Su, Li Audio and Speech Processing Information Retrieval Signal Processing Computational music research plays a critical role in advancing music production, distribution, and understanding across various musical styles worldwide. Despite the immense cultural and religious significance, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) chants are relatively underrepresented in computational music research. This paper contributes to this field by introducing a new dataset specifically tailored for analyzing EOTC chants, also known as Yaredawi Zema. This work provides a comprehensive overview of a 10-hour dataset, 369 instances, creation, and curation process, including rigorous quality assurance measures. Our dataset has a detailed word-level temporal boundary and reading tone annotation along with the corresponding chanting mode label of audios. Moreover, we have also identified the chanting options associated with multiple chanting notations in the manuscript by annotating them accordingly. Our goal in making this dataset available to the public 1 is to encourage more research and study of EOTC chants, including lyrics transcription, lyric-to-audio alignment, and music generation tasks. Such research work will advance knowledge and efforts to preserve this distinctive liturgical music, a priceless cultural artifact for the Ethiopian people. |
| title | Zema Dataset: A Comprehensive Study of Yaredawi Zema with a Focus on Horologium Chants |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Information Retrieval Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18784 |