ECurator

The ECurator is an app to sustain endangered oral music traditions across the world which have existed and are transmitted primarily in oral form. The App is conceived for tradition-bearers, teachers, community archivists and local institutions. It allows communities to curate their own recordings, align lyrics and translations, and use the results to teach, learn and share their music on their own terms. In practical terms this means a school can build lessons around aligned audio and text; a small museum can manage and retrieve materials at low cost; and performers can produce accurate subtitles and translations for wider audiences without ceding control of their material. In many communities, the most authoritative performers are now elderly; without a usable platform, comprehensive repertoires will be difficult to pass on. The database collects the audio recording of commonly used words in minority languages (at moment are Yi [Yi Central dialect], Miao [Northeast Yunnan Miao] and Bai [Southern Bai dialect]) that refer to music and dance genres and activities among minority communities, which mainly exist in their oral tradition. Taking the audio recording of the words with the spoken and sung lyrics as a central point, the database connects these words and lyrics to their corresponding written scripts: Chinese, English and International Phonetic Alphabet. You can shift between Chinese and English interfaces. Full information of the database can be accessed under the "Dictionary". You can access the collection of music genres under the "Music", mainly epics and ancient songs from Yi, Bai and Miao minority population. Currently, the database mainly gathers Meige from Yi people, Dabenqu from Bai people and epic and migrate songs from Miao people. “多语口头音乐传统音响语料库”收录了少数民族口头音乐传统中与音乐和舞蹈相关的常用词的音频（目前包括彝语中部方言区、苗语滇东北次方言区和白语南部方言区）。这个语料库以音频为基础，提供与之相匹配的少数民族口头音乐传统中的原文，相对应的汉语、英文、常用音标、国际音标、演唱范例和相关背景资料。您可以切换中文或英文浏览页面。您可以在“词典”这一页面来访问语料库的全部内容。您可以在“音乐”这一页面来访问这些少数民族方言区的史诗和古歌，主要包括彝族梅葛、白族大本曲和苗族的史诗和迁徙歌。