MusicNet

MusicNet offers music characterizations. This Data Set contains the results obtained after the analysis of pieces of MIDI music. The analysis was performed by applying the concept of Fundamental Scale: the set of symbols producing the minimal entropy when reading a text consisting of a large sequence of characters.

Each piece is characterized by its character-length. The results are presented in terms of symbolic diversity, entropy, and second order entropy. These characterizations of music allow to represent music pieces, composers, styles and periods in a 3-dimensional space with symbolic diversity, entropy, and second order entropy as its axis.

The MIDI pieces analyzed for each style of music can be found at these DOIs:

Medieval: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5435983

Renaissance: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5435992

Baroque: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5435995

Classical: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436010

Romantic: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436013

Impressionistic: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436016

Twentieth: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436019

Chinese: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436022

Hindu Raga: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436025

Venezuelan: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436106

Rock: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436031

Movie Themes: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436034

Rock: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436031

Movie Themes: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5436034