In this repo, we peresent a dataset representing the complete non-metrical Radif repertoire, covering all 13 existing components of this repertoire. We provide MIDI files (about 281 minutes in total) and data spreadsheets describing notes, note durations, intervals, and hierarchical structures for 228 pieces of music. We faithfully represent the tonality including quarter-tones, and the non-metric aspect. Furthermore, we provide supporting basic statistics, and measures of complexity and similarity over the corpus.
Released at the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2025), Daejeon, Korea.
If you use this dataset, please cite:
Maziar Kanani, Seán O’Leary, and James McDermott (2025). Radif Corpus: A Symbolic Dataset for Non-metric Iranian Classical Music. Proceedings of ISMIR 2025, Daejeon, Korea. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16270318
This work was supported by the SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) under grant number 18/CRT/6224, funded by Science Foundation Ireland.