Automatic Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music

Abstract

The Raga is the core of Indian Classical Music that is used in its composition, performance, improvisation and organization. Automatic Raga identification has potential use in various areas including music information retrieval, teaching music, learning of music, practicing of music, multimedia databases, interactive composition etc. Hindustani raga identification is a standard problem to artist that, over the years, have produced a detailed locution of Hindustani raga. In recent years the identification of Hindustani raga in the field can be made indirectly from its audio recorded tracks, using intelligent recording devices. This is an interesting form to monitor the Hindustani raga and its characteristics.