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Computational Approaches for Indian Classical Music: A Comprehensive Review

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Technological advances have resulted in massive digital music growth and created the need to efficiently analyze large volumes of digital music and extract helpful information needed to perform various musical tasks. Classical music in the Indian subcontinent, known as Indian classical music (ICM), has a long tradition and many followers. ICM has always been less researched, but it has changed in the past decade. Many researchers have started focusing on the tasks of ICM. These analyses and approaches by various researchers must be combined and analyzed in-depth to develop future research avenues. Therefore, this chapter critically reviews various approaches for the fundamental tasks in ICM. The basic concepts of ICM are also described in detail to get a precise hold of musical ideas. Moreover, the signal processing methods are examined to draw out valuable characteristics for specific tasks and their strengths and shortcomings in ICM. This chapter also highlights some broad research problems with the present methodologies and potential solutions to correct and increase efficiency.

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    https://dunya.compmusic.upf.edu/.

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