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Music Information Retrieval For Irish Traditional Music Automatic Analysis Of Harmonic, Rhythmic, And Melodic Features For Efficient Key-Invariant Tune Recognition, Pierre Beauguitte
Music Information Retrieval For Irish Traditional Music Automatic Analysis Of Harmonic, Rhythmic, And Melodic Features For Efficient Key-Invariant Tune Recognition, Pierre Beauguitte
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Music making and listening practices increasingly rely on techno logy,and,asaconsequence,techniquesdevelopedinmusicinformation retrieval (MIR) research are more readily available to end users, in par ticular via online tools and smartphone apps. However, the majority of MIRresearchfocusesonWesternpopandclassicalmusic,andthusdoes not address specificities of other musical idioms. Irishtraditionalmusic(ITM)ispopularacrosstheglobe,withregular sessionsorganisedonallcontinents. ITMisadistinctivemusicalidiom, particularly in terms of heterophony and modality, and these character istics can constitute challenges for existing MIR algorithms. The bene fitsofdevelopingMIRmethodsspecificallytailoredtoITMisevidenced by Tunepal, a query-by-playing tool that has become popular among ITM practitioners since its release in 2009. As of today, Tunepal is the state of the art for tune recognition in ITM. The research in …