Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music

• Main Authors: Chakraborty, Soubhik (Author), Mazzola, Guerino (Author), Tewari, Swarima (Author), Patra, Moujhuri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Computational Music Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Music.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Application software.; Mathematics.; Statistics.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Mathematics in Music.; Mathematics of Computing.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.

The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to analyze musical structure using Rubato, the music software package for statistical analysis, i...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Hindustani Music
• The Role of Statistics in Computational Musicology
• Introduction to Rubato: The Music Software for Statistical Analysis
• Modeling the Structure of Raga Bhimpalashree: A Statistical Approach
• Analysis of Lengths and Similarity of Melodies in Raga Bhimpalashree
• Raga Analysis Using Entropy
• Modeling Musical Performance Data with Statistics
• A Statistical Comparison of Bhairav (A Morning Raga) and Bihag (A Night Raga)
• Seminatural Composition
• Concluding Remarks.