Musical Structure in Irish Traditional Tunes

Locating Tune Changes and Providing a Semantic Labelling of Sets of Irish Traditional Tunes

An approach is presented which provides the tune change locations within a set of Irish Traditional tunes. Also provided are semantic labels for each part of each tune within the set. A set in Irish Traditional music is a number of individual tunes played segue. Each of the tunes in the set are made up of structural segments called parts. Musical variation is a prominent characteristic of this ...

Enabling Access to Irish Traditional Music Archives on a PDA

This paper describes TunePal, a tool which facilitates convenient audio access to archive transcriptions of traditional tunes on a PDA. The main feature of TunePal is its ability to locate a tune by name or musical phrase from thousands stored on a PDA. TunePal enhances not only the recall of a musician using TunePal in a traditional music session, but also the acquisition of new repertoire. In...

The Ethical Implications of the Technological Surveillance of Art

Every night, traditional Irish musicians gather in sessions at pubs and other public spaces to play tunes together. Each public space has its own tradition and history: i.e., context, players, repertoire, styles, etc. Moreover, this tradition is temporally situated; for example, tunes go in and out of fashion. Yet, tunes themselves are mobile—they travel from session to session via recordings, ...

Machine Annotation of Sets of Traditional Irish Dance Tunes

Methods for Comparing and Classifying Tunes

Declaration I hereby declare that this project is entirely my own work and that it has not been submitted as an exercise for a degree at this or any other university I agree that the Library and other agents of the College may lend or copy this thesis upon request. Abstract This project is about classifying (traditional Irish) melodies and comparing them to other melodies so that some indicatio...