Western Classical Guitar Music Tokenized from MIDI

Comprising solo guitar pieces from the Mutopia Project, encoded as text tokens from MIDI files. It primarily features music by western classical composers such as Sor, Aguado, Carcassi, and Giuliani. The dataset is intended for language modeling and text generation tasks.

Use Cases

• Train a language model on tokenized MIDI sequences for conditional multi-track music generation.
• Analyze patterns in tokenized guitar music from specific composers like Sor or Giuliani.
• Fine-tune a transformer model for text generation tasks on structured music data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the curated Mutopia Project, a source of public domain sheet music.
• Music is encoded using a specific implementation from a published paper (MMM: Exploring Conditional Multi-Track Music Generation with the Transformer).
• The dataset is categorized for language modeling and text generation tasks.

Limitations

• The dataset size is categorized as 1K<n<10K, indicating a relatively small sample size.
• Geographic and cultural coverage is limited to western classical guitar music.
• Data freshness is limited, with a last update in July 2022.

Provenance

Source

Mutopia Project

Collection Method

MIDI files from the Mutopia Project were encoded into text tokens using an implementation from the MMM research paper.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-07-22.