AIST Annotation for the RWC Music Database

In this paper, we introduce our activities regarding the manual annotation of the musical pieces of the RWC Music Database. Although the RWC Music Database is widely used, its annotated descriptions are not widely available. We therefore annotated a set of music-scene descriptions consisting of the beat structure, melody line, and chorus sections. We call this AIST Annotation. We also manually synchronized standard MIDI files with the corresponding audio signals at the beat level. We hope that the AIST Annotation will contribute to further advances in the field of music information processing.