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Title:	Motivic analysis and its relevance to raga identification in carnatic music
Author:	Bellur, Ashwin; Murthy, Hema A.; Ishwar, Vignesh
Abstract:	A raga is a collective melodic expression consisting of motifs. A raga can be identified using motifs which are/nunique to it. Motifs can be thought of as signature prosodic phrases. Different ragas may be composed of the same set/nof notes, or even phrases, but the prosody may be completely different. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine/nthe characteristic motifs that enable identification of a raga and distinguish between them. To determine this, motifs are first manually marked for a set of five popular raga by a professional musician. The motifs are then normalised/nwith respect to the tonic. HMMs are trained for each motif using 80% of the data and about 20% are used for testing. The results do indicate that about 80% of the motifs are identified as belonging to a specific raga accurately.
Abstract:	This research was partly funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program, as part of the CompMusic project (ERC grant/nagreement 267583).
Subject(s):	-Música -- Índia -Música -- Anàlisi
Rights:	© 2012 Vignesh Ishwar et al. This is an open-access article distributed/nunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Document type:	Conference Object Article - Published version
Published by:	Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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