NotaGen: Symbolic Music Generation

ABC notation is a musical notation system that uses a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols to represent musical notes. We adopt a modified version---interleaved ABC notation, as our data representation. In this format, different voices of the same bar are rearranged into a single line and differentiated using voice indicators ''[V:]''. Furthermore, we remove bars with full rests. There have long been misconceptions about the capabilities of ABC notation. For instance, "ABC notation cannot handle multitrack music", "ABC notation is unable to represent complex scores". Actually, ABC is incredibly versatile. Not only can it accommodate multitrack music for any instrumentation, but it can also capture nearly all elements found in Western staff notation system. In addition to notes and rhythms, ABC notation can represent various techniques, expressions, and tempos, as well as flexibly incorporate text annotations. ... Read full article.