Gulati, SankalpSerrà Julià, JoanIshwar, VigneshSerra, Xavier2017-10-092017-10-092016Gulati S, Serrà J, Ishwar V, Serra X. Discovering raga motifs by characterizing communities in networks of melodic patterns. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP); 2016 Mar 20-25; Shanghai, China. [New York]: IEEE; 2016. p. 286-90. DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471682http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32878Comunicació presentada a la 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), celebrada els dies 20 a 25 de març a Xangai, Xina.Ra̅ga motifs are the main building blocks of the melodic structures in Indian art music. Therefore, the discovery and characterization of such motifs is fundamental for the computational analysis of this music. We propose an approach for discovering ra̅ga motifs from audio music collections. First, we extract melodic patterns from a collection of 44 hours of audio comprising 160 recordings belonging to 10 ra̅gas. Next, we characterize these patterns by performing a network analysis, detecting non-overlapping communities, and exploiting the topological properties of the network to determine a similarity threshold. With that, we select a number of motif candidates that are representative of a ra̅ga, the ra̅ga motifs. For a formal evaluation we perform listening tests with 10 professional musicians. The results indicate that, on an average, the selected melodic phrases correspond to ra̅ga motifs with 85% positive ratings. This opens up the possibilities for many musically-meaningful computational tasks in Indian art music, including human-interpretable ra̅ga recognition, semantic-based music discovery, or pedagogical tools.application/pdfeng© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The final published article can be found at http://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471682info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471682Carnatic musicRāga motifMelodic phrasesMelodic similarityIndian art musicinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess