This is the accompanying code repository to our datasets Beethoven Symphony Excerpt Dataset (BSED) and Beethoven Symphony Dataset (BSD). We will publish the code soon after some final checks and cleanups!
The data can be found on Zenodo.
If you use BSED/BSD in your academic work, please cite this article:
📘 Hans-Ulrich Berendes, Abhirup Saha, Ben Maman, Vlora Arifi-Mülle, and Meinard Müller (2026). Beethoven Symphony Excerpt Dataset (BSED): An Evaluation Dataset for Orchestral Music Transcription. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 9(1), 405–422. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.343
@article{BerendesSMAM26_BSED,
author = {Berendes, Hans-Ulrich and Saha, Abhirup and Maman, Ben and Arifi-Müller, Vlora and Müller, Meinard},
title = {Beethoven Symphony Excerpt Dataset ({BSED}): An Evaluation Dataset for Orchestral Music Transcription},
journal = {Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {405--422},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5334/tismir.343},
}
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