Exploiting carnatic music characteristics for music content Identification

Abstract

This thesis focuses on understanding the unique characteristics of newlineCarnatic music for designing feature extraction algorithms which are then newlineused in the identification of music content Indian music differs from its Western counterpart in being justtempered having varying intervals of the octave and possessing Gamakas Indian music is broadly classified as North Indian Hindustani music and newlineSouth Indian Carnatic music Both the systems of music follow a Raga newlinescheme and a Tala scheme employing a drone or tanpura for rendering but newlinethe styles of using these Raga and Tala Components and of rendering the newlinemusic differentiate one system of music from the other In this work Carnatic newlinemusic has been analyzed and its characteristics have been used to design newlinefeature extraction algorithm These features are then used to identify the newlinecharacteristics of the Raga Tala and other non music components like the newlineSinger the Genre the Instrument and the Emotion newline newline