What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music

MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset designed to allow machine learning algorithms to tackle a wide range of open challenges — from automated music transcription to listening recommendations based on the structure of music itself.

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MusicNet

MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings, together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note’s position in the metrical structure of the composition. The labels are acquired from musical scores aligned to recordings by dynamic time warping. The labels are verified by trained musicians; we estimate a labeling error rate of 4%. We offer the MusicNet labels to the machine learning and music communities as a resource for training models and a common benchmark for comparing results.

What I want to see is a catalogue of musical themes ordered by pitch.

As for what makes Bach sound like Bach, that depends on what instrument it’s played on.

CrazyNeutrino said:

MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings,

330 recordings doesn’t seem to be very large.

to the question, the answer’d be the structure of brains, quite a few million years of biohistory, the dice throw of gestational neural unfolding, + life experiences

transition said:

to the question, the answer’d be the structure of brains, quite a few million years of biohistory, the dice throw of gestational neural unfolding, + life experiences

On this video:
Not Bach

the artist plays 2 or 3 notes, and is greeted with loud applause.

I guess if a computer had that song on it’s database it would be pretty quick at picking the song as well, but what about if the artist was on the database, but not that particular song?

Who would win at the artist guessing competition? I think the humans would win hands down.

Interesting, but I don’t think that this project will come close to to answering the question.

“MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset with curated fine-level annotations.”

What does curated fine-level annotations mean?

mollwollfumble said:

“MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset with curated fine-level annotations.”

What does curated fine-level annotations mean?

I presume: “together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note’s position in the metrical structure of the composition”