Abstract
Temporal analysis in music information retrieval concerns the positions of musical events and structures within recordings. Joint modeling has demonstrated the value of combining musical descriptions, but existing resources differ in joint coverage and expert verification across dimensions, constraining detailed joint supervision and the analysis of relationships on the same recordings. To support multitask modeling and the study of relationships among musical dimensions in popular music, we introduce FaiSonic Multidimensional Music Dataset (FaiSonic MMD), containing 500 songs totaling approximately 32.86 hours, comprising 250 Chinese-language and 250 English-language songs. Professional musicians annotate phrases, sections, chords, and rhythm in real recordings, followed by independent review. Events and intervals across dimensions share a recording-based time reference while retaining their respective musical granularity and boundaries, allowing direct comparison across musical descriptions. We describe the annotations, collection procedure, and statistics, and establish a comprehensive multitask baseline for phrase boundaries, section boundaries, section functions, chords, beats, and downbeats. We report reference performance for all prediction targets. FaiSonic MMD provides shared expert annotations and accompanying benchmarks for temporal music analysis.
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URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13503
