analyzing-the-evolution-of-irish-traditional-music-using-python.json

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  "copyright_text": "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)",
  "description": "Celtic music, and more specifically, Irish music has been around for at\nleast a few hundred years now. Being folk music, most of these tunes have\nbeen passed down the generations by ear causing many variations of the same\ntune to co-exist. Even today, as the tunes travel geographically, **they\ndevelop slight variations** according to the players' individual quirks.\n\nOver recent times, websites like [thesession.org](https://thesession.org/)\nare beginning to collect well-known tunes in databases made up of player\ncontributions. This particular website features both the *abc* and *midi*\nformats in addition to the staff notation. Players are allowed to contribute\ntheir own versions of popular tunes which makes this site very conducive to\nobserving **patterns in the variations**. This analysis will explore **how\nthese tunes changes across their newer versions and what makes some tunes\nchange more than the others**. It will define metrics by which tune\nvariations can be quantified and visualized and it will try to unearth\ncommon patterns in these variations.",
  "duration": 1500,
  "language": "eng",
  "recorded": "2019-10-05",
  "related_urls": [
    "https://2019.pygotham.org/talks/analyzing-the-evolution-of-irish-traditional-music-using-python/"
  ],
  "speakers": [
    "Neehaarika Velavarthy"
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iUMyanuM2gI/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "title": "Analyzing the Evolution of Irish Traditional Music using Python",
  "videos": [
    {
      "type": "youtube",
      "url": "https://youtu.be/iUMyanuM2gI"
    }
  ]
}