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/mahler_kindertotenlieder and the corresponding

• documentation page https://dcmlab.github.io/mahler_kindertotenlieder

For information on how to obtain and use the dataset, please refer to this documentation page.

Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder

This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It represents the canonical voice-and-piano edition of Mahler’s 1904 orchestral song cycle after Rückert. This work, along with the contemporaneous Rückert-Lieder and Symphony no. 5, represent an introversion of the composer’s style alongside an increase in harmonic experimentation. This trend is reflected in our annotations by the presence of complex non-standard contrapuntal patterns within single harmonies as well as in prolongating, non-cadential chord successions. In expanding the possibilities of chromatic elaboration and free organization of functional harmonies, these phenomena illustrate a connection between 19th- and 20th-century styles represented elsewhere in the Distant Listening Corpus.

Scores

These piano scores were downloaded from the wonderful OpenScore Lieder project. They correspond to the ca.1911 Universal Edition printing of the vocal score. Staff spacing, paginations, and margins were modified to improve the readability of the annotations.

Overview

file_name	measures	labels	standard	annotators	reviewers
kindertotenlieder_01_nun_will_die_sonn	84	179	2.3.0	Amelia Brey	DK
kindertotenlieder_02_nun_seh_ich_wohl	74	96	2.3.0	Amelia Brey	AN
kindertotenlieder_03_wenn_dein_mutterlein	70	118	2.3.0	Amelia Brey	AN
kindertotenlieder_04_oft_denk_ich	71	53	2.3.0	Amelia Brey	AN
kindertotenlieder_05_in_diesem_wetter	139	149	2.3.0	Amelia Brey	ST

Overview table automatically updated using ms3.

Further information:

• How to use
• Analyses