Friday, July 25, 2025

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music

The article 'The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music' has now been published in OpenMind and can be accessed here https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi.a.4/131815.



The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography presents an open-access of vocal music of over 1,000 song excerpts from many human societies, including metadata that give details about each song's area of origin, language (of the 413 languages represented) and one of ten behavioural contexts such as storytelling. The corpus is publicly available at https://zenodo.org/records/15725182 for members of research community to use for their research.


The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music

The article 'The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music' has now been published in OpenMind an...