IrishMAN: 216,284 Irish Tunes in ABC Notation for Music Generation

216,284 Irish tunes in ABC notation, split into 214,122 for training and 2,162 for validation. The Irish Massive ABC Notation (IrishMAN) dataset was compiled from traditional music sources thesession.org and abcnotation.com. It was created by sander-wood and last updated on March 16,我们发现了一个问题。

Use Cases

• Train music generation models based on the structural information encoded in ABC notation.
• Analyze patterns in traditional Irish music based on the large collection of tunes.
• Convert between musical notation formats (ABC, MIDI, MusicXML) using the provided alternative downloads.
• Study the use of control codes for musical structure within the ABC notation format.

Strengths

• Contains 216,284 individual tunes, providing substantial scale for model training.
• Explicitly split into training (214,122) and validation (2,162) subsets for machine learning workflows.
• Sourced from two established platforms for sharing traditional music: thesession.org and abcnotation.com.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes efforts for uniformity but does not detail specific cleaning or standardization steps applied.

Provenance

Source

thesession.org and abcnotation.com

Collection Method

Collected from online platforms sharing traditional music.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-16 11:43:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Primarily Irish traditional music.