Vidwans, AmrutaGanguli, Kaustuv KantiRao, Preeti2013-02-132013-02-132012Vidwans A, Ganguli KK, Rao P. Classification of indian classical vocal styles from melodic contours. In: Serra X, Rao P, Murthy H, Bozkurt B, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop; 2012 Jul 12-13; Istanbul, Turkey. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2012. p. 139-146http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20367A prominent categorization of Indian classical music is the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions, the two styles/nhaving evolved under distinctly different historical and/ncultural influences. Both styles are grounded in the melodic/nand rhythmic framework of raga and tala. The styles differ along dimensions such as instrumentation,/naesthetics and voice production. In particular, Carnatic music is perceived as being more ornamented. The hypothesis/nthat style distinctions are embedded in the melodic contour is validated via subjective classification tests. Melodic features representing the distinctive characteristics/nare extracted from the audio. Previous work based on the extent of stable pitch regions is supported by measurements of musicians’ annotations of stable notes. Further, a new feature is introduced that captures the/npresence of specific pitch modulations characteristic of/nornamentation in Indian classical music. The combined features show high classification accuracy on a database of vocal music of prominent artistes. The misclassifications are seen to match actual listener confusions.8 p.application/pdfeng© 2012 Amruta Vidwans et al. This is an open-access article/ndistributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License/n3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction/nin any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Música vocalMúsica -- AnàlisiMúsica -- ÍndiaMúsica -- Classificacióinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess