Machine Annotation of Traditional Irish Dance Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781449521899)

Estimates put the canon of traditional Irish dance tunes at at least seven thousand compositions. Given this diversity, a common problem faced by musicians and ethnomusicologists is identifying tunes from recordings. This work attempts to solve this problem by developing a Content Based Music Information Retrieval (CBMIR) system adapted to the characteristics of traditional Irish dance music. Included is a comprehensive review of the domain of traditional Irish music and three chapters of related work in the fields of feature extraction, melodic similarity and music information retrieval. A new software system is presented called MATT2 (Machine Annotation of Traditional Tunes) whose goal is to annotate recordings of traditional Irish dance music with useful metadata. A new algorithm is also presented called TANSEY (Turn ANnotation from SEts using SimilaritY profiles) that annotates sets of tunes played segue as is the custom in traditional Irish dance music.

Author: Bryan Duggan
ISBN-10: 1449521894
ISBN-13: 9781449521899
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.52d