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PDMX: A Large-Scale Public Domain MusicXML Dataset for Symbolic Music Processing

arXiv 2409.10831 ↗First posted 17 Sep 2024cs.SD cs.AI cs.LGcited by 15

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Abstract (arXiv)

The recent explosion of generative AI-Music systems has raised numerous concerns over data copyright, licensing music from musicians, and the conflict between open-source AI and large prestige companies. Such issues highlight the need for publicly available, copyright-free musical data, in which there is a large shortage, particularly for symbolic music data. To alleviate this issue, we present PDMX: a large-scale open-source dataset of over 250K public domain MusicXML scores collected from the score-sharing forum MuseScore, making it the largest available copyright-free symbolic music dataset to our knowledge. PDMX additionally includes a wealth of both tag and user interaction metadata, allowing us to efficiently analyze the dataset and filter for high quality user-generated scores. Given the additional metadata afforded by our data collection process, we conduct multitrack music generation experiments evaluating how different representative subsets of PDMX lead to different behaviors in downstream models, and how user-rating statistics can be used as an effective measure of data quality. Examples can be found at https://pnlong.github.io/PDMX.demo/.

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  1. 2025Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Researchcited by 48
  2. 2025LEGATO: Large-scale End-to-end Generalizable Approach to Typeset OMRcited by 3
  3. 2025Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Trainingcited by 2
  4. 2025From Generality to Mastery: Composer-Style Symbolic Music Generation via Large-Scale Pre-trainingcited by 1
  5. 2025MuseTok: Symbolic Music Tokenization for Generation and Semantic Understandingcited by 1
  6. 2026BMdataset: A Musicologically Curated LilyPond Datasetcited by 1
  7. 2026PianoCoRe: Combined and Refined Piano MIDI Datasetcited by 1
  8. 2026Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Trainingcited by 1
  9. 2026Optical Music Recognition for Real-World Manuscripts with Synthetic Datacited by 1
  10. 2026MusPyExpress: Extending MusPy with Enhanced Expression Text Supportcited by 1
  11. 2026Rubato: Transcribing Piano Music with Timestampscited by 0
  12. 2026LEGATO 2: Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understandingcited by 0
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  1. 2026Local Multimodal Music Alignment from Global Supervisioncited by 0
  2. 2026Integrating Contextual Embeddings into Evaluation of Expressive MIDI Piano Performancescited by 0
  3. 2026A Dataset and Benchmark for Optical Music Recognition of String Quartet Scorescited by 0