license:
- mit
- cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
- other
task_categories:
- text-to-audio
- other
language:
- en
tags:
- music
- abc
- sheet-music
- symbolic-music
- text-to-music
- text-to-score
- music-generation
pretty_name: Text2Score ABC Notation Dataset
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
viewer: false
Text2Score ABC Notation Dataset
A large-scale symbolic music dataset in ABC notation, curated to support text-driven sheet music generation. Released as part of the Text2Score project.
🚀 Download & Install Dataset
pip install -U huggingface_hub hf-transfer
export HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1
huggingface-cli download datasets/mimbres/text2score --local-dir ABC_Dataset
cd ABC_Dataset
tar xf ABC_Dataset_only_abci_pkl_json.tar
📖 Dataset Description
This dataset comprises 621,162 pieces in ABC notation, assembled from multiple sources via MIDI-to-ABC conversion (quantized MIDI only, for training quality), direct XML-to-ABC conversion, and publicly available online repositories. The collection spans a broad range of genres and instrumentation, including chamber music, symphonies, film soundtracks, folk tunes, choral works, and solo instrument pieces.
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| ABC Notation Data | 316,118 |
| PDMX Dataset | 253,339 |
| SymphonyNet (Contemporary MIDI) | 45,629 |
| Wikifonia Dataset | 6,076 |
| ASAP Dataset | 234 |
| Total | 621,162 |
📝 Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite our paper (BibTeX to be updated upon arXiv release):
@article{bhandari2025text2score,
title = {Text2Score: Generating Sheet Music from Textual Prompts},
author = {Bhandari, Keshav and Chang, Sungkyun and Roy, Abhinaba and Ronchini, Francesca and Benetos, Emmanouil and Herremans, Dorien and Colton, Simon},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13431},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13431}
}
⚖️ License
This dataset is a composite assembled from multiple sources. Each source carries its own license — users must comply with all applicable terms for the subsets they use. Full license texts are provided in the LICENSES/ directory of this repository.
| Source | License | Full text |
|---|---|---|
| PDMX Dataset | MIT | LICENSES/LICENSE_PDMX.txt |
| SymphonyNet (Contemporary MIDI) | MIT | LICENSES/LICENSE_SYMPHONYNET.txt |
| ASAP Dataset | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | LICENSES/LICENSE_ASAP.txt |
| Wikifonia / EWLD | Non-commercial, restricted access ⚠️ | LICENSES/LICENSE_WIKIFONIA.txt |
| ABC Notation Data (converted) | Varies by piece; see LICENSE for details |
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⚠️ Wikifonia / EWLD notice: The original EWLD dataset on Zenodo is restricted-access and requires users to explicitly agree to non-commercial terms before obtaining access. Redistribution of EWLD-derived content may not be permitted without authorisation from the original author; users should independently verify compliance. A public-domain subset is available as OpenEWLD.
⚠️ Overall constraint: The most restrictive licenses in this composite (ASAP: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; Wikifonia: non-commercial only) mean the full dataset may only be used for non-commercial research purposes. For commercial use, restrict to the PDMX and SymphonyNet subsets (both MIT-licensed).
See LICENSE at the root of this repository for a full composite summary.