observations.nottingham

nottingham(path)

Load the Nottingham database of 1200 British and American folk tunes. Data is loaded in the piano-roll representation (Boulanger-Lewandowski, Bengio, & Vincent, 2012), i.e., a binary matrix specifying which notes occur at each time step.

Args:

• path: str. Path to directory which either stores file or otherwise file will be downloaded and extracted there. Filename is Nottingham.pickle.

Returns:

list of x_train, x_test, x_valid, where each is a list of sequences. Each sequence is itself a list of time steps, and each time step is a list of the non-zero elements in the piano-roll at this instant (in MIDI note numbers, between 21 and 108 inclusive).