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Proposer

Adam Sampson

Title

Identify reused elements in folk tunes

Goal

Analyse a large corpus of folk tunes and identify tunes that borrow motifs from (or are variants of) another tune

Description

If you don't like folk music, this is probably not the project for you. Thousands of folk tunes (short instrumental pieces), from many different traditions, are available in easily machine-readable ABC format in online databases like thesession.org and folktunefinder.com. As folk tune authors tend to "borrow" elements of existing tunes, it should be possible to take a collection like this and identify common elements between tunes - for example, showing how a tune has moved between different traditions (e.g. Scotland/Ireland/US) and been adapted to different instruments, or how different versions of the same tune have diverged over time. You could potentially use this to build a tool for exploring a collection of tunes, by showing links between tunes that share elements of melody.

Resources

Background

Url

Difficulty Level

Moderate

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

1

Supervisor

Adam Sampson

Keywords

music, audio analysis, music theory

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems
Bachelor of Science in Software Development for Business (GA)
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Master of Science in Computing (2 Years)
Master of Science in Data Science
Master of Science in Information Technology (Business)
Master of Science in Information Technology (Software Systems)
Master of Science in Software Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science
Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics