Government of IndiaCarnatic Ragam thodi: pitch analysis of notes and gamakams
Author: Subramanian, M
Keywords: Carnatic music
Raga
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description: Carnatic music is highly phrase-oriented, with movements from note to note or oscillations (gamakams) of a note playing a greater part than the use of steady notes of a particular scale. For computer applications such as generating score or notation from live music or generating synthetic music from notation ragam identification. etc.,it is necessary to have a knowledge of the pitch values of the notes and the manner in which the pitch of the melody varies in a phrase or with in an oscillated note in a particular ragam. Gaurav Pandey et al had tried raga identification of Hindustani ragas using computer analysis of recorded melody (Ref. I). In this study they have presumed a certain minimum duration of constant pitch for a note,but as may be seen from the pitch graphs in this paper in Carnatic music the notes may be entirely held as oscillations without any perceptible steady pitch for even a short period. It there fore becomes necessary to charcterize a note on the basis of the entire movement rather than a single pitch.Characterization of gamakams using quantitative parameters is a difficult task especially in situations where the artist's imagination plays a very significant role and wide variations are possible within broad limits.
Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type: Article
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| DC Field | Value |
| dc.contributor.author | Subramanian, M |
| dc.coverage.spatial | India |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-14T00:35:25Z |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-14T00:35:25Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 |
| dc.description.abstract | Carnatic music is highly phrase-oriented, with movements from note to note or oscillations (gamakams) of a note playing a greater part than the use of steady notes of a particular scale. For computer applications such as generating score or notation from live music or generating synthetic music from notation ragam identification. etc.,it is necessary to have a knowledge of the pitch values of the notes and the manner in which the pitch of the melody varies in a phrase or with in an oscillated note in a particular ragam. Gaurav Pandey et al had tried raga identification of Hindustani ragas using computer analysis of recorded melody (Ref. I). In this study they have presumed a certain minimum duration of constant pitch for a note,but as may be seen from the pitch graphs in this paper in Carnatic music the notes may be entirely held as oscillations without any perceptible steady pitch for even a short period. It there fore becomes necessary to charcterize a note on the basis of the entire movement rather than a single pitch.Characterization of gamakams using quantitative parameters is a difficult task especially in situations where the artist's imagination plays a very significant role and wide variations are possible within broad limits. |
| dc.source | Sangeet Natak Akademi |
| dc.format.extent | 03-20 p. |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.publisher | Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi |
| dc.subject | Carnatic music Raga |
| dc.type | Article |
| dc.identifier.issuenumber | 1 |
| dc.identifier.volumenumber | 41 |
| dc.format.medium | text |
| DC Field | Value |
| dc.contributor.author | Subramanian, M |
| dc.coverage.spatial | India |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-14T00:35:25Z |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-14T00:35:25Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 |
| dc.description.abstract | Carnatic music is highly phrase-oriented, with movements from note to note or oscillations (gamakams) of a note playing a greater part than the use of steady notes of a particular scale. For computer applications such as generating score or notation from live music or generating synthetic music from notation ragam identification. etc.,it is necessary to have a knowledge of the pitch values of the notes and the manner in which the pitch of the melody varies in a phrase or with in an oscillated note in a particular ragam. Gaurav Pandey et al had tried raga identification of Hindustani ragas using computer analysis of recorded melody (Ref. I). In this study they have presumed a certain minimum duration of constant pitch for a note,but as may be seen from the pitch graphs in this paper in Carnatic music the notes may be entirely held as oscillations without any perceptible steady pitch for even a short period. It there fore becomes necessary to charcterize a note on the basis of the entire movement rather than a single pitch.Characterization of gamakams using quantitative parameters is a difficult task especially in situations where the artist's imagination plays a very significant role and wide variations are possible within broad limits. |
| dc.source | Sangeet Natak Akademi |
| dc.format.extent | 03-20 p. |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.publisher | Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi |
| dc.subject | Carnatic music Raga |
| dc.type | Article |
| dc.identifier.issuenumber | 1 |
| dc.identifier.volumenumber | 41 |
| dc.format.medium | text |
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