IMSLP MIDI Files and Metadata Crawled in July 2024

IMSLP MIDI Dataset contains MIDI files and associated metadata crawled from the International Music Score Library Project on July 21-22, 2024. The dataset includes fields such as composer, year, era, style, key, and license, along with raw MIDI bytes and serialized mido objects. It was created by TiMauzi and is available under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train music generation models based on structured MIDI data and composer metadata.
• Analyze musical style and key distributions across different historical eras based on the era and style fields.
• Build a searchable database of classical music scores using the title, composer, and year metadata.
• Study the licensing landscape of digital music scores based on the provided license field.

Strengths

• Includes raw MIDI bytes and a JSON-serialized mido object for each file, providing multiple data representations.
• Metadata fields such as composer, year, era, style, and key offer structured contextual information.
• Data was crawled from IMSLP on a specific date range, July 21-22, 2024, providing a temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-03-08 18:52:03; freshness should be verified against the source.

Provenance

Source

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

Collection Method

Crawled from IMSLP on July 21-22, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-08 18:52:03.