Uzun Hava Humdrum Dataset v2

This release contains the scores of uzun hava in **kern format. The dataset is used in the masters thesis:

Şentürk, S. (2011). Computational modeling of improvisation in Turkish folk music using variable-length Markov models. Master’s thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Please cite the publication above in any work using this dataset.

This version has 77 uzun havas from different regions of Anatolia, Iraq and Caucasus. It consists of 10849 notes in total, in 8 makams. For more information about the dataset, please refer to the thesis.

Uzun Hava Humdrum Dataset v1

This release contains the scores of uzun hava in **kern format. The dataset is used in the paper:

Şentürk, S. and Chordia, P. (2011). Modeling melodic improvisation in Turkish folk music using variable-length Markov models. In Proceedings of 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, pages 269–274, Miami, Florida.

Please cite the publication above in any work using this dataset.

This version has 64 songs encoded, with a total of 6613 notes, in 8 makams from different regions of Anatolia and Azerbaijan. For more information about the dataset, please refer to the paper.