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license: mit
task_categories:
- text-generation
pretty_name: ABC CC
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
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## Dataset Summary

The dataset used to train and evaluate [TunesFormer](https://huggingface.co/sander-wood/tunesformer) is collected from two sources: [The Session](https://thesession.org) and [ABCnotation.com](https://abcnotation.com). The Session is a community website focused on Irish traditional music, while ABCnotation.com is a website that provides a standard for folk and traditional music notation in the form of ASCII text files. The combined dataset consists of 285,449 ABC tunes, with 99\% (282,595) of the tunes used as the training set and the remaining 1\% (2854) used as the evaluation set.

To ensure consistency and standardization among the ABC tunes in the dataset, we first converted them all into MusicXML format and then re-converted them back into ABC notation. In order to focus solely on the musical content, we removed any natural language elements (such as titles, composers, and lyrics) and unnecessary information (such as reference numbers and sources).