Browsing by Author "Murthy, Hema A."

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  • A knowledge based signal processing approach to tonic identification in indian classical music
    Bellur, Ashwin; Ishwar, Vignesh; Serra, Xavier; Murthy, Hema A. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012)
    In this paper, we describe several techniques for detecting tonic pitch value in Indian classical music. In Indian music, the raga is the basic melodic framework and it is built on the tonic. Tonic detection is therefore ...
  • Akshara transcription of mrudangam strokes in carnatic music
    Kuriakose, Jom; Kumar, J Chaitanya; Sarala, Padi; Murthy, Hema A.; Sivaraman, Umayalpuram K (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
    Percussion instruments play a significant role in/nCarnatic music concerts. The percussion artist enjoys a great/ndegree of freedom in improvising within the defined tala/nstructure/nof a composition. The ...
  • Applause identification and its relevance to archival of Carnatic music
    Sarala, Padi; Ishwar, Vignesh; Bellur, Ashwin; Murthy, Hema A. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012)
    A Carnatic music concert is made up of a sequence of pieces, where each piece corresponds to a particular genre and ra¯aga (melody). Unlike a western music concert, the artist may be applauded intra-performance ...
  • Automatic tonic identification in Indian art music: approaches and evaluation
    Gulati, Sankalp; Bellur, Ashwin; Salamon, Justin; Ranjani, H. G.; Ishwar, Vignesh; Murthy, Hema A.; Serra, Xavier (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)
    The tonic is a fundamental concept in Indian art music. It is the base pitch, which an artist chooses in order to construct the melodies during a rāg(a) rendition, and all accompanying instruments are tuned using the tonic ...
  • Discovery of syllabic percussion patterns in tabla solo recordings
    Gupta, Swapnil; Srinivasamurthy, Ajay; Kumar, Manoj; Murthy, Hema A.; Serra, Xavier (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)
    We address the unexplored problem of percussion pattern/ndiscovery in Indian art music. Percussion in Indian art music uses onomatopoeic oral mnemonic syllables for the transmission of repertoire and technique. This is ...
  • Modal analysis and transcription of strokes of the mridangam using non-negative matrix factorization
    Anantapadmanabhan, Akshay; Bellur, Ashwin; Murthy, Hema A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
    In this paper we use a Non-negative Matrix Factorization/n(NMF) based approach to analyze the strokes of the mri-/ndangam, a South Indian hand drum, in terms of the normal/nmodes of the instrument. Using ...
  • Motivic analysis and its relevance to raga identification in carnatic music
    Bellur, Ashwin; Ishwar, Vignesh; Murthy, Hema A. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012)
    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 ...
  • Proceedings of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop
    Serra, Xavier; Rao, Preeti; Murthy, Hema A.; Bozkurt, Baris (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012)