Introduction
The “Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition” collects the audio recording of commonly used words in the Yi, Bai and Miao languages that refer to music and dance genres and activities among ethnic minority communities, which mainly exist in their oral tradition. Taking the audio recording of the words as a central point, ECura project connects these words to their corresponding written scripts (using Chinese, English and International Phonetic Alphabet). Users from those language groups could then access and browse materials through their Indigenous languages. Meanwhile, external viewers interested in these traditions can still access materials via English, Chinese or IPA. (The ECura project also aims to include the oral music tradition from other ethnic minority groups in the next few years.) Please choose one of the ethnic minorities from Yi, Miao or Bai. Then use the search engine by entering English or Chinese to reflect their corresponding audios (being read aloud and singing examples in their original languages), IPA, English/Chinese.）
CONTRIBUTORS | Yi Database: Audio (Rongxiu Luo, Zi’an Guo, Zhengjun Guo); Chinese Text (Xiaowei Guo, Rongxiu Luo); English translation (Jin Dai, Keyi Liu); English proof-reading (Mary Dillon, Xingfu Li); IPA (Wei Li, Xingfu Li). Miao Database: Audio (Xuede Li); Chinese Text (Xuede Li, Keyi Liu); English translation (Lihua Su, Yunhui Yang, Haiyan Long, Yalun Yang); IPA (Haiping Zhang). Bai Database: 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, Tianyu Liu, Yalun Yang, Shangcheng Ye, Decheng Shao.
FOUNDER: The European Research Council (ECura, 101039864, ERC-2021-STG).
Check our ECura multilingual database of Yunnan ethnic minority music @ http://www.ecuraarchive.org/home
