Forms in music: an exploratory mathematical study of Indian musical patterns
Author :Deva, B.C.
Nair, P.S.
Keywords :Ragas
Hindustani music
Ragas--India
Issue Date :1966-04
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :Indian music is basically melodic. The melodic schemes, called ragas, are about 400 in number in current practice. There has been a continuous tradition of attempts to classify the ragas on the basis of scales they employ and/or their melodic similarities. Not many of these systems have been methodologically strict or sufficiently objective.We here attempt to introduce a method for the study of melody (raga) based on the concepts of cybernetics, information theory and related branches. The ragais conceived as a statistically definable melodic pattern. This pattern is analysed in terms of entropy and rank correlation. From this it is proposed to explore methods of defining forms in melody or raga patterns. The present paper will deal with the static aspect of the probability of occurrence of notes.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Deva, B.C.
Nair, P.S.
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2017-06-15T07:34:38Z
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1966-04
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Indian music is basically melodic. The melodic schemes, called ragas, are about 400 in number in current practice. There has been a continuous tradition of attempts to classify the ragas on the basis of scales they employ and/or their melodic similarities. Not many of these systems have been methodologically strict or sufficiently objective.We here attempt to introduce a method for the study of melody (raga) based on the concepts of cybernetics, information theory and related branches. The ragais conceived as a statistically definable melodic pattern. This pattern is analysed in terms of entropy and rank correlation. From this it is proposed to explore methods of defining forms in melody or raga patterns. The present paper will deal with the static aspect of the probability of occurrence of notes.
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