BY Yuanqi Hong
July 22, 2018
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 in every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note's position in the metrical structure of the composition.
MusicNet provides two datasets: the first is its metadata, which contains summary info of the tracks, and the second is the raw data (provided in different formats), which contains everything including the labels, and which I failed to download after a couple of tries. I (had to) start by looking at MusicNet's metadata.
What I wanted to graph: melody lines
This is an example of what I wanted to graph. The data is taken from Polyphonic Melody Extraction, a project by LabROSA.