This is a README file for a data repository originating from the DCML corpus initiative and serves as welcome page for both
the GitHub repo DCMLab/couperin_concerts and the corresponding
documentation page https://dcmlab.github.io/couperin_concerts
For information on how to obtain and use the dataset, please refer to this documentation page.
When you use (parts of) this dataset in your work, please read and cite the accompanying data report:
Hentschel, J., Rammos, Y., Neuwirth, M., & Rohrmeier, M. (2025). A corpus and a modular infrastructure for the empirical study of (an)notated music. Scientific Data, 12(1), 685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04976-z
François Couperin – Concerts Royaux (A corpus of annotated scores)#
This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It represents 14 concerts composed by François Couperin (1668-1733) and the trio sonata Apothéose de Corelli. In the 1710s Couperin started to compose a series of Concerts which were performed first 1714/15 at Sunday concerts for king Louis XIV. Later he published four of them as Concerts Royaux together with the Troisième livre of the Pièces de Clavecin in 1722, whereas the concerts nos. 5–14 were published as Les Goûts-réünis ou Nouveaux Concerts together with the Apothéose de Corelli in 1724. The concerts are written for a melody instrument and figured bass but can also be performed as Harpsichord pieces or with added middle voices; some of those were given by the composer. The detailed basso continuo figures (except nos. 12 and 13) allow a quite exact harmonic annotation considering some research about French basso continuo practice. These annotations will provide considerable support to future quantitative study of Baroque harmony, major-minor tonality, the use of the rule of the octave, cadences and schemata.
– Prof. Johannes Menke
Getting the data#
download repository as a ZIP file
download a Frictionless Datapackage that includes concatenations of the TSV files in the four folders (
measures,notes,chords, andharmonies) and a JSON descriptor:clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/DCMLab/couperin_concerts.git
Data Formats#
Each piece in this corpus is represented by five files with identical name prefixes, each in its own folder. For example, the first Prélude of the first concert has the following files:
MS3/c01n01_prelude.mscx: Uncompressed MuseScore 3.6.2 file including the music and annotation labels.notes/c01n01_prelude.notes.tsv: A table of all note heads contained in the score and their relevant features (not each of them represents an onset, some are tied together)measures/c01n01_prelude.measures.tsv: A table with relevant information about the measures in the score.chords/c01n01_prelude.chords.tsv: A table containing layer-wise unique onset positions with the musical markup (such as dynamics, articulation, lyrics, figured bass, etc.).harmonies/c01n01_prelude.harmonies.tsv: A table of the included harmony labels (including cadences and phrases) with their positions in the score.
Each TSV file comes with its own JSON descriptor that describes the meanings and datatypes of the columns (“fields”) it contains, follows the Frictionless specification, and can be used to validate and correctly load the described file.
Opening Scores#
After navigating to your local copy, you can open the scores in the folder MS3 with the free and open source score
editor MuseScore. Please note that the scores have been edited, annotated and tested with
MuseScore 3.6.2.
MuseScore 4 has since been released which renders them correctly but cannot store them back in the same format.
Opening TSV files in a spreadsheet#
Tab-separated value (TSV) files are like Comma-separated value (CSV) files and can be opened with most modern text
editors. However, for correctly displaying the columns, you might want to use a spreadsheet or an addon for your
favourite text editor. When you use a spreadsheet such as Excel, it might annoy you by interpreting fractions as
dates. This can be circumvented by using Data --> From Text/CSV or the free alternative
LibreOffice Calc. Other than that, TSV data can be loaded with
every modern programming language.
Loading TSV files in Python#
Since the TSV files contain null values, lists, fractions, and numbers that are to be treated as strings, you may want
to use this code to load any TSV files related to this repository (provided you’re doing it in Python). After a quick
pip install -U ms3 (requires Python 3.10 or later) you’ll be able to load any TSV like this:
import ms3
labels = ms3.load_tsv("harmonies/c01n01_prelude.harmonies.tsv")
notes = ms3.load_tsv("notes/c01n01_prelude.notes.tsv")
Version history#
See the GitHub releases.
Questions, Suggestions, Corrections, Bug Reports#
Please create an issue and/or feel free to fork and submit pull requests.
Cite as#
Hentschel, J., Rammos, Y., Neuwirth, M., & Rohrmeier, M. (2025). A corpus and a modular infrastructure for the empirical study of (an)notated music. Scientific Data, 12(1), 685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04976-z
License#
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Scores#
Concerts Royaux#
Figures added by Tom Schreyer who also corrected the scores typeset by Gouin.
Nouveaux Concerts, ou Les Goûts-Réunis#
Typeset by Tom Schreyer
Concerts 12 & 13 not annotated
File naming convention#
Example: c01n01_prelude.
The filenames follow the pattern c<##>n<##>_<movement> where
c= concert number (01-14)n= movement number (01-11)movement= beginning of the movement title in lowercase and without diacritics
The seven movements of Le Parnasse, ou L’Apothéose de Corelli form an exception and have
the pattern parnasse_<##>.
The regular expression for parsing all filenames is
(?P<concert>c\d{2}|parnasse)[_n](?P<movementNumber>\d{2})(?:_(?<movementName>.+))?.
where concert can either take the value c<##> or parnasse. In the latter case,
the movementName group remains empty.
Overview#
file_name |
measures |
labels |
standard |
annotators |
reviewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
c01n01_prelude |
23 |
94 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c01n02_allemande |
18 |
78 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c01n03_sarabande |
28 |
68 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c01n04_gavotte |
14 |
54 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c01n05_gigue |
30 |
139 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c01n06_menuet_en_trio |
24 |
47 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c02n01_prelude |
37 |
88 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c02n02_allemande_fuguee |
24 |
121 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c02n03_air_tendre |
40 |
86 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c02n04_air_contrefugue |
62 |
154 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c02n05_echos |
85 |
148 |
2.3.0 |
Eva-Maria Hamberger (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n01_prelude |
18 |
83 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n02_allemande |
17 |
111 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n03_courante |
25 |
105 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n04_sarabande_grave |
32 |
72 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n05_gavotte |
25 |
85 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n06_musette_1 |
28 |
28 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n07_musette_2 |
27 |
34 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c03n08_chaconne_legere |
128 |
287 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n01_prelude |
14 |
86 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n02_allemande |
14 |
77 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n03_courante_francoise |
21 |
85 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n04_courante_a_litalienne |
73 |
145 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n05_sarabande |
24 |
48 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n06_rigaudon |
41 |
62 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c04n07_forlane |
55 |
149 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c05n01_prelude |
52 |
99 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c05n02_allemande |
43 |
154 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c05n03_sarabande |
24 |
54 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c05n04_gavote |
32 |
104 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c05n05_musete |
54 |
118 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c06n01_grave |
24 |
111 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c06n02_allemande |
31 |
130 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c06n03_sarabande |
44 |
115 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c06n04_air_diable |
44 |
105 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c06n05_siciliene |
21 |
129 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n01_grave |
14 |
85 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n02_allemande |
28 |
139 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n03_sarabande |
33 |
74 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n04_fuguete |
50 |
142 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n05_gavote |
28 |
57 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c07n06_siciliene |
18 |
105 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n01_ouverture |
89 |
155 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n02_ritournele |
61 |
126 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n03_air |
31 |
68 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n04_air_tendre |
24 |
54 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n05_air_leger |
38 |
75 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n06_Loure |
32 |
113 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n07_air |
28 |
74 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n08_sarabande |
24 |
64 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n09_air_leger |
29 |
49 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n10_air_lentement |
46 |
102 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c08n11_air_baccantes |
18 |
59 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c09n01_charme |
20 |
129 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n02_lenjouement |
34 |
184 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n03_graces |
22 |
93 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n04_Lejene |
52 |
113 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n05_vivacite |
35 |
173 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n06_Sarabande |
24 |
50 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n07_douceur |
42 |
102 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c09n08_caetera |
23 |
75 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c10n01_gravement |
14 |
74 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c10n02_air |
32 |
124 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c10n03_plainte |
36 |
92 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c10n04_tromba |
42 |
74 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n01_majestueusement |
38 |
88 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n02_allemande |
22 |
124 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n03_seconde_allemande |
20 |
117 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n04_courante |
18 |
83 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n05_seconde_courante |
21 |
84 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n06_sarabande |
36 |
70 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n07_gigue |
43 |
158 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c11n08_Rondeau |
56 |
131 |
2.3.0 |
Tobias Drewelius (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) |
c12n01_pointe |
41 |
0 |
|||
c12n02_badinage |
59 |
0 |
|||
c12n03_air |
58 |
0 |
|||
c13n01_unisson |
18 |
0 |
|||
c13n02_air |
24 |
0 |
|||
c13n03_sarabande |
29 |
0 |
|||
c13n04_chaconne |
93 |
0 |
|||
c14n01_gravement |
15 |
87 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c14n02_allemande |
23 |
99 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c14n03_sarabande |
28 |
55 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
c14n04_fuguete |
56 |
225 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_01 |
18 |
82 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_02 |
62 |
251 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke(2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_03 |
58 |
116 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0) , Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_04 |
57 |
105 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_05 |
26 |
106 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_06 |
32 |
62 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
|
parnasse_07 |
53 |
235 |
2.3.0 |
Johannes Menke (2.1.0), Hanné Becker (2.3.0) |
Overview table automatically updated using ms3.
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