Machine readable datasets

A collection of open, machine readable music documents from all over the Web

Motivation

Scientific studies over multi-format symbolic music notation are currently impossible. Mostly due to the siloed nature of all such open data on the Web. These analyses require large collections of files directly downloadable for large scale number crunching.

Criteria for inclusion

• Machine readable
• Open license
• Directly downloadable via a URL

Index of document formats

• MIDI
• MusicXML
• Humdrum
• Guitar Pro
• Kern

Datasets

MIDI

• The largest MIDI collection on the Internet, compiled by a redditor
• The Lakh MIDI dataset is a collection of 176,581 unique MIDI files, 45,129 of which have been matched and aligned to entries in the Million Song Dataset; compiled by Colin Raffel
• Musicalion (SCRAPE NEEDED)

LilyPond

• Mutopia database (SCRAPE NEEDED)

Kern

• Kern Scores (SCRAPE NEEDED)

MusicXML

• Catalog of catalogs (SCRAPE NEEDED)
• Musicalion (SCRAPE NEEDED)

GuitarPro datasets