A Statistical Analysis of Melody Lengths in a North Indian Raga

The length of a melody simply refers to the number of notes in it. Melody lengths also provide interesting data sets that merit statistical attention individually, apart from their role in calculating melody significance. However, their individual study has been a neglected aspect in music analysis....

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Published inStudii și cercetări de istoria artei. Seria teatru, muzică, cinematografie no. 5-6 (49-50); pp. 129 - 136
Main Authors Soubhik Chakraborty, Swarima Tewari, Shashidhar Sundareisan, Shreya Kashyap, Mita Pal
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published Publishing House of the Romanian Academy 01.12.2012
Subjects
Melody
Melody length
Raga
statistical analysis
Truncated Poisson model
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Summary:The length of a melody simply refers to the number of notes in it. Melody lengths also provide interesting data sets that merit statistical attention individually, apart from their role in calculating melody significance. However, their individual study has been a neglected aspect in music analysis. This paper makes amends with a case study in a north Indian raga. A 0-2 truncated Poisson model seems to characterize the melody lengths.
ISSN:0039-3991
2067-5119