  In late 2011, Fado was elevated to the oral and intangible heritage of
humanity by UNESCO. This study aims to develop a tool for automatic detection
of Fado music based on the audio signal. To do this, frequency spectrum-related
characteristics were captured form the audio signal: in addition to the Mel
Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and the energy of the signal, the
signal was further analysed in two frequency ranges, providing additional
information. Tests were run both in a 10-fold cross-validation setup (97.6%
accuracy), and in a traditional train/test setup (95.8% accuracy). The good
results reflect the fact that Fado is a very distinctive musical style.
