Beethoven Sonatas Dataset
Beethoven is a raw audio waveform dataset used in the paper "It's Raw! Audio Generation with State-Space Models". It has been used primarily as a source of single instrument piano music for training music generation models at a small scale.
The dataset was originally introduced in the SampleRNN paper by Mehri et al. (2017) and download details from the original paper can be found at https://github.com/soroushmehr/sampleRNN_ICLR2017/tree/master/datasets/music. Here, we provide a more convenient download of a processed version of the dataset in order to standardize future use.
We include two versions of the dataset:
beethoven.zip
is a zip file containing 4328 8-second audio clips sampled at 16kHz. These were generated by first joining all the piano sonatas, and then splitting the track into 8-second chunks. This data can also be used with the https://github.com/HazyResearch/state-spaces repository to reproduce SaShiMi results, and was the dataset used in the paper.beethoven_raw.zip
contains the raw audio tracks, sampled at 16kHz.
We recommend (and follow) the following train-validation-test split for the audio files in beethoven.zip
(we attempted to recreate the splits from the SampleRNN work as closely as possible):
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to3807.wav
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to4067.wav
for validation4068.wav
to4327.wav
for testing
You can use the following BibTeX entries to appropriately cite prior work if you decide to use this in your research:
@article{goel2022sashimi,
title={It's Raw! Audio Generation with State-Space Models},
author={Goel, Karan and Gu, Albert and Donahue, Chris and R\'{e}, Christopher},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09729},
year={2022}
}
@inproceedings{mehri2017samplernn,
title={SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model},
author={Mehri, Soroush and Kumar, Kundan and Gulrajani, Ishaan and Kumar, Rithesh and Jain, Shubham and Sotelo, Jose and Courville, Aaron and Bengio, Yoshua},
booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2017}
}
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