Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition (Bai Database [Southen Bai Dialect])

The "Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition" collects audio recordings of commonly used words in some of China’s minority languages that refer to music and dance genres and activities. At the moment, the Database includes Yi Central dialect, Northeast Yunnan Miao and Southern Bai dialect. Taking the audio recordings of words used in spoken and sung lyrics as its central point, the Database connects these words to their corresponding written scripts: Chinese, English and International Phonetic Alphabet. (please visit database website ECura for full information; or the backup website Bai Audio Database – Everyone is a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China)

The Bai Database (as part of displays the square Bai script found in Dabenqu, along with its Chinese and English translations, accompanied by audio of the text, as well as International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and Pinyin transcriptions to enhance its audibility and readability for a broader audience. The Dabenqu performances, together with recordings in Bai script and pinyin, have been primarily documented by Yang Sen, a provincial-level representative inheritor of this musical tradition in Yunnan.

CONTRIBUTORS

Audio (Sen Yang); Chinese Text (Sen Yang, Keyi Liu); English translation (Xuemei Li, Hongqiao Zhu); IPA (Sen Yang, Haizhen Guo). Database Design & Management: Lijuan Qian. Database Technician: Kai Zhao. Database Entry Editing: Keyi Liu, Xi Zhang, Tingting Tang, Tianyu Liu, Yalun Yang, Shangcheng Ye, Decheng Shao.