Melodic Features for Meertens Tune Collections and ESSEN Folksong Collection

<p>The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.liederenbank.nl/mtc/">Meertens Tune Collections</a>&nbsp;(MTC) and the <a href="http://www.esac-data.org">Essen Folk Song Collections</a>&nbsp;include various data sets with melodic data. The melodies are provided in Humdrum **kern encoding and as MIDI sequences. In many cases, a representation of the melodies as sequences of feature values is needed rather than encoded scores.&nbsp;The present dataset provides&nbsp;such feature sequences. It is accompanied by a Python module that offers functionality to load and filter the sequences: <a href="https://pvankranenburg.github.io/MTCFeatures/">MTCFeatures</a>. The documentation of MTCFeatures contains a detailed description of the features.</p> <p>The following melody collections are included:</p> <ul> <li> <p>MTC-ANN-2.0.1 - A small set of 360 richly annotated melodies from Dutch sources.</p> </li> <li> <p>MTC-FS-INST-2.0 - A large set of c. 18 thousand melodies from Dutch sources.</p> </li> <li> <p>ESSEN Folksong Collection - A set of more than 8 thousand folk song melodies mainly from Germany.</p> </li> </ul> <p>For more information on the contents of the&nbsp;Meertens Tune Collections, please visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.liederenbank.nl/mtc/">http://www.liederenbank.nl/mtc/</a>.</p> <p>For the Essen Folk Song Collection, the features were extracted from the **kern files in the zip-archive as provided by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University (<a href="https://kern.humdrum.org/cgi-bin/browse?l=/essen">https://kern.humdrum.org/cgi-bin/browse?l=/essen</a>).</p>