Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music

Chakraborty, Soubhik; Mazzola, Guerino; Tewari, Swarima; Patra, Moujhuri

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, in particular addressing modeling, melodic similarity and lengths, and entropy analysis; they then show how to analyze musical performance. Finally, they explain how the concept of seminatural composition can help a music composer to obtain the opening line of a raga-based song using Monte Carlo simulation.

The book will be of interest to musicians and musicologists, particularly those engaged with Indian music.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2014-12-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319114712

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11472-9

Dimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm

Pages: 107.0