Structure and Proportion in Hindustani Ālāp

Data-Driven Exploration of Melodic Structure in Hindustani Music

Indian art music is quintessentially an improvisatory music form in which the line between ‘fixed’ and ‘free’ is extremely subtle. In a rāga performance, the melody is loosely constrained by the chosen composition but otherwise improvised in accordance with the rāga grammar. One of the melodic aspects that is governed by this grammar is the manner in which a melody evolves in time in the course...

Hindustani Self-Taught

Landmark detection in Hindustani music melodies

Musical melodies contain hierarchically organized events, where some events are more salient than others, acting as melodic landmarks. In Hindustani music melodies, an important landmark is the occurrence of a nyas. Occurrence of nyas is crucial to build and sustain the format of a rag and mark the boundaries of melodic motifs. Detection of nyas segments is relevant to tasks such as melody segm...

Automatic Raga Recognition in Hindustani Classical Music

Raga’ is the central melodic concept in Hindustani Classical Music. It has a complex structure, often characterized by pathos. In this paper, we describe a technique for Automatic Raga Recognition, based on pitch distributions. We are able to successfully classify ragas with a commendable accuracy on our test dataset.

Landmark Detection in Hindustani Music Melodies

Musical melodies contain hierarchically organized events, where some events are more salient than others, acting as melodic landmarks. In Hindustani music melodies, an important landmark is the occurrence of a nyās. Occurrence of nyās is crucial to build and sustain the format of a rāg and mark the boundaries of melodic motifs. Detection of nyās segments is relevant to tasks such as melody segm...