Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only
Disciplines
Electrical and electronic engineering
Abstract
An approach which efficiently segments Irish Traditional Music into its constituent structural segments is presented. The complexity of the segmentation process is greatly increased due to melodic variation existent within this music type. In order to deal with these variations, a novel method using ‘set accented tones’ is introduced. The premise is that these tones are less susceptible to variation than all other tones. Thus, the location of the accented tones is estimated and pitch information is extracted at these specific locations. Following this, a vector containing the pitch values is used to extract similar patterns using heuristics specific to Irish Traditional Music. The robustness of the approach is evaluated using a set of commercially available Irish Traditional recordings.
Recommended Citation
Kelly, C., Gainza, M., Dorran, D. & Coyle, E.: Structural Segmentation using Set Accented Tones. Audio Engineering Society 124th Convention, Amsterdam, 2008.
Publication Details
Audio Engineering Society 124th Convention, Amsterdam.