Beyond Ba(t)ch: A Multimodal Meta‑Corpus of Digital Chorale Transcriptions and Related Data
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.226 | Journal eISSN: 2514-3298
Language: English
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Submitted on: Sep 9, 2024
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