Onset Detection, Music Transcription and Ornament Detection for the the Traditional Irish Fiddle

Authors

Aileen Kelleher, Technological University DublinFollow
Derry Fitzgerald, Technological University DublinFollow
Eugene Coyle, Technological University DublinFollow
Robert Lawlor, Technological University DublinFollow
Mikel Gainza, Dublin Institute of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only

Disciplines

Electrical and electronic engineering

Publication Details

118th AES Convention, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Abstract

By combining techniques used in previous onset detectors, a system that detects note onsets in traditional Irish fiddle tunes has been implemented. The notes detected also include the most common types of ornamentation played by the fiddle. Ornaments are notes of extremely short duration, at most a fifth the length of a regular note. A Short Time Fourier Transform based sub-band technique, which previously gave good results for the Irish tin whistle, was modified to include a threshold approximation more suitable for the fiddle. This system has been tested on a database of real recorded fiddle tunes and good results have been achieved.

Recommended Citation

Kelleher, A., Fitzgerald, D., Gainza, M., Coyle, E. & Lawlor, R. (2005) Onset Detection, Music Transcription and Ornament Detection for the the Traditional Irish Fiddle, 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.