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The notes which play the most important and second most important roles in expressing a raga are called Vadi and Samvadi swars respectively in (North) Indian Classical music. Like Bageshree, Bhairavi, Shankara, Hamir and Kalingra, Rageshree is another controversial raga so far as the choice of Vadi-Samvadi selection is concerned where there are two different opinions. In the present work, a two minute vocal recording of raga Rageshree is subjected to a careful statistical analysis. Our analysis is broken into three phases: first half, middle half and last half. Under a multinomial model set up holding appreciably in the first two phases, only one opinion is found acceptable. In the last phase the distribution seems to be quasi multinomial, characterized by an unstable nature of relative occurrence of pitch of all the notes and although the note whose relative occurrence of pitch suddenly shoots is the Vadi swar selected from our analysis of the first two phases, we take it as an outlier demanding a separate treatment like any other in statistics. Selection of Vadi-Samvadi notes in a quasi-multinomial set up is still an open research problem. An interesting musical cocktail is propo

Author

Chakraborty, Soubhik; Ranganayakulu, Rayalla; Chauhan, Shivee; Solanki, Sandeep Singh; Mahto, Kartik

Published

2008

Language

EN