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JSB Chorales

Introduced by Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski et al. in Modeling Temporal Dependencies in High-Dimensional Sequences: Application to Polyphonic Music Generation and Transcription27 Jun 2012 archive 2025-07-28

The JSB chorales are a set of short, four-voice pieces of music well-noted for their stylistic homogeneity. The chorales were originally composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in the 18th century. He wrote them by first taking pre-existing melodies from contemporary Lutheran hymns and then harmonising them to create the parts for the remaining three voices. The version of the dataset used canonically in representation learning contexts consists of 382 such chorales, with a train/validation/test split of 229, 76 and 77 samples respectively.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Music Modeling JSB Chorales TonicNet NLL 0.208 JS Fake Chorales: a Synthetic Dataset of Polyphonic... omarperacha/TonicNet +1 10 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

8 shown of 8 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 33. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Improving Polyphonic Music Models with Feature-Rich Encoding 2 1 26 Nov 2019 not harvested
Seq-U-Net: A One-Dimensional Causal U-Net for Efficient Sequence Modelling 1 2 14 Nov 2019 ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified)
Counterpoint by Convolution 4 1 18 Mar 2019 ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified)
Music Transformer 12 1 12 Sep 2018 ran 2 of 4 samples (2 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
An Empirical Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling 35 1 4 Mar 2018 ran 2 of 10 samples (8 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling 14 1 11 Dec 2014 ran 0 of 3 samples (3 unverified)
Modeling Temporal Dependencies in High-Dimensional Sequences: Application to Polyphonic Music Generation and Transcription 1 2 27 Jun 2012 not harvested
JS Fake Chorales: a Synthetic Dataset of Polyphonic Music with Human Annotation 2 1 not harvested

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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