Curating and annotating a collection of traditional Irish flute recordings to facilitate stylistic analysis

Kearney, Daithi and Kokuer, Munevver and Ali-MacLachlan, Islah and Jancovic, Peter (2019) Curating and annotating a collection of traditional Irish flute recordings to facilitate stylistic analysis. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 20 (1). pp. 107-121. ISSN 1432-5012

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Abstract

This paper presents the curation and annotation of a collection of traditional Irish flute recordings to facilitate the analysis of stylistic characteristics. We introduce the structure of Irish tunes, types of tunes and the ornamentation, which is a decisive stylistic determinant in Irish traditional music. We identify seminal recordings of prominent flute players and provide information related to players and their style and geographical context. We describe the process of manual annotation of the audio data. The annotations consists of the onsets of notes, note frequency and identity of notes and ornaments. We also present initial stylistic analysis of individual players in terms of ornamentation and phrasing and provide a variety of statistics for the data. The ability to accurately represent and analyse stylistic features such as ornaments allow for the development of discourse related to several key ethnomusicological questions surrounding music making, musical heritage and cultural change.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Irish traditional music; Ornament; Style; Flute; Corpus; Annotation.
Subjects:	Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities > Music
Research Centres:	Centre for Creative Arts, Media & Music
Depositing User:	Sean McGreal
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2019 10:41
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2019 10:41
License:	Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/657

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