Computational Analysis of Irish Traditional Music: A Comparative Study of Two 19th-Century Manuscript Collections

Áine Heneghan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Collaborators: Benjamin Jackson, Programming Assistance (Meridian Computing); TBD, Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, Mathematics; TBD, Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, Statistics; TBD, Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, Linguistics

Computational Analysis of Irish Traditional Music: A Comparative Study of Two 19th-Century Manuscript Collections This project uses computational tools to analyze the jigs collected (1) by James Goodman in south-west Ireland during the 1860s and (2) by Stephen Grier in north-west Ireland during the 1880s. It further considers the question of regional differentiation, which is analogous to dialects in a language.