Geographical Origin of Music with 1059 Traditional Tracks and Audio Features

1059 traditional music tracks from 33 countries or areas, with geographical origin determined by the artist's main residence. Audio features were extracted from wave files using the MARSYAS program, resulting in 116 feature columns plus latitude and longitude targets. The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Predicting the geographic origin of music based on extracted audio features like timbre and tuning.
• Investigating the relationship between musical characteristics (e.g., chromatic attributes) and cultural regions.
• Training models for world music classification and analysis in cultural musicology studies.
• Exploring how audio features correlate with latitude and longitude coordinates of a music's origin.

Strengths

• Contains 1059 music tracks, providing a substantial sample for analysis.
• Covers 33 distinct countries or areas, offering geographic diversity.
• Features were standardized to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1, which may aid model training.
• Includes both basic timbral features and specific chromatic attributes that may be important for ethnomusicology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic precision is limited to the country level, using the capital's coordinates as a point of origin.

Provenance

Source

OpenML platform.

Collection Method

Audio features were extracted from personal collection wave files using the MARSYAS program with default settings.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

33 countries or areas worldwide.