Bellur, AshwinIshwar, VigneshMurthy, Hema A.2013-02-132013-02-132012Ishwar V, Bellur A, Murthy H. Motivic analysis and its relevance to Raga identification in carnatic music. 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. 153-157http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20366A 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 same set/nof notes, or even phrases, but the prosody may be completely different. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine/nthe characteristic motifs that enable identification of a raga and distinguish between them. To determine this, motifs are first manually marked for a set of five popular raga by a professional musician. The motifs are then normalised/nwith respect to the tonic. HMMs are trained for each motif using 80% of the data and about 20% are used for testing. The results do indicate that about 80% of the motifs are identified as belonging to a specific raga accurately.5 p.application/pdfeng© 2012 Vignesh Ishwar et al. This is an open-access article distributed/nunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Música -- ÍndiaMúsica -- Anàlisiinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess