Content-Based Music Retrieval of Irish Traditional Music Via a Virtual Tin Whistle

We present a mobilephon eapplication associating a virtual musical instrument (emulating a tin whistle) to a content based music retrieval system for Irish Traditional Music (ITM). It performs tune recognition, following the architecture of the existing query-by-playing software Tunepal (Duggan & O’Shea, 2011). After explaining the motivation for this project in Section 2 and presenting some relatedworkinSection3,wedescribeourproposedapplicationinSection4. Section5discussescurrentshortcomings of our project and potential future directions