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'MusoRepo': a directory of resources for Computational Musicology

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This is a list of links to resources for computational musicology, with a focus on working with symbolic scores.

There are other, excellent lists out like:

• Audio Content Analysis Datasets
• CCARH Digital Resources for Musicology
• ISMIR's Resources list – research centers, datasets and more, mostly for audio analysis.
• and more by Colin Raffel, dharasim, Georg Holzmann and others.

I have / will contribute this content to those lists where appropriate, but I think that this list is sufficiently distinct to warrant a separate existence, particularly in light of the focus on working with scores. Please do reach out if you would like to contribute an item to this list, or if you have a suggestion for how to organize it better, or perhaps even a grand idea for us list makers should coordinate our efforts.

Scores and Datasets

Datasets related to scores (e.g. of chord progressions)

• ‘Annotated jazz chord progression corpus’ - Mark Granroth-Wilding and Mark Steedman
• Corpus of rock chord progression - deClercq and Temperley 2011
• iRb Jazz Corpus - OSU
• Jazzomat Research Project’s ‘Weimar Jazz Database’
• MTG/JAAH - 113 tracks selected from Smithsonian jazz collections
• Lakh MIDI Dataset - MIDI
• MusicNet - A curated collection of labeled classical music [recordings].
• ‘Wikifonia’ - corpus of lead sheets (vocal lines and harmonies). NB: no longer hosted online
• YCAC Dataset - .csv datasets of pitch 'slices' from a MIDI corpus.

Encoded Musical Scores

• ELVIS - metacorpus, various formats.
• JRP - krn format. Works by Josquin and contemporaries.
• Kern Scores - krn format.
• Kunst der Fuge (MIDI) - MIDI.
• LvH - French - Vocal lines from songs by French composers in krn format.
• LvH - German - Vocal lines from songs by German composers in krn format.
• MuseData - krn format, mostly Baroque and Classical music.
• music21 Corpus - metacorpus.
• Nottingham dataset, cleaned version
• Neuma - metacorpus, various formats.
• OpenScore - mscx format.
• ScoresOfScores - xml and mscx formats. 300 Lieder.

Metadata

• Discogs
• Musicbrainz
• Music Ontology data

Softwares

Analysis / Annotation / Edition / Visualisation

• Dezrann
• Digitale Musikedition - based on Frans Wiering’s idea of a “multidimensional model” of a musical edition
• “Freischütz Digital”
• jfugue - Music programming for Java and JVM languages
• Machine-readable Schenkerian analyses
• mdecks
• OCVE - Collection and comparison of primary source Chopin scores
• “OPERA”
• Tido
• XronoMorph - app for creating rhythmic and melodic loops.

Automatic composition (with A.I.)

• Band-in-a-Box
• Google Magenta Project
• Jukedeck
• Sony CSL-Paris: Flow Machine
• WHIM

Digital music-making

• OpenMusic - Computer-assisted composition.
• Max/MSP – Real-time audio manipulation
• Sonic Pi, Overtone, SuperCollider - Live-coding

Notation softwares and score rendering

• MuseScore
• Dorico
• Lilypond
• Abjad
• Noteflight
• VexFlow
• Verovio

Optical Music Recognition (OMR)

• musitek
• sharpeye
• Audiveris

Score Analysis - Open Source Softwares and Code Libraries

• Humdrum
• music21 (p)
• music21 (j)

Sheet music / readers (commercial)

• forScore
• irealpro
• neoScores
• Newzik
• Nkoda

Standards

• MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) - an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.
• MusicXML - the standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music.
• MNX File format (forthcoming) - draft specifications
• SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) - a specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts.

Groups and Institutions

Archival / Catalogues

• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
• Europeana
• HathiTrust Research Center
• International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)
• RISM

Conferences and Journals

• Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM)
• Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) – IMSIR satellite
• Empirical Musicology Review (EMR)
• Frontiers In Digital Humanities
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) - conference and proceedings
• HathiTrust Research Center 'Uncamp'
• Journal of Mathematics and Music (JMAM) - Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Music Theory, Analysis, Composition and Performance
• Journal of New Music Research
• Music & Science Journal
• Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM)'s Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM)
• TISMIR: Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

Hackathons and Other Events

• Classical Music Hackday
• MusicMesse, Frankfurt am Main

Research Groups

• Algomus - 'Algorithmic Musicology' group, Lille, FR
• Centre for Digital Music (‘C4DM’), Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Mark Sandler and Simon Dixon
• Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory (CSML) at Ohio State University, US - David Huron
• Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) at EPFL, CH - Martin Rohrmeier
• IRCAM: Iremus
• Distributed Digital Music Archives & Libraries Lab, McGill, CA - Ichiro Fujinaga
• Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning Group, AT - Gerhard Widmer
• Music Informatics Research Group, City University London, UK - Tillman Weyde
• Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ESP - Xavier Serra

See more at ismir.net.