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This paper presents an attempt to study the aesthetics of North Indian Khayal music with reference to the flexibility exercised by artists in performing popular compositions. We study expressive timing and pitch variations of the given lyrical content within and across performances and propose computational representations that can discriminate between different performances of the same song in terms of expression. We present the necessary audio processing and annotation procedures, and discuss our observations and insights from the analysis of a dataset of two songs in two ragas each rendered by several prominent artists.
The following flowchart shows the complete data processing pipeline, starting from the concert YouTube recording and moving downward to the labelled Tabla and syllable onset-label files.
| Raga | Bhimpalasi | Yaman |
|---|---|---|
| Bandish | Ja Ja Re | Yeri Aali |
| Taal | Teentaal | Teentaal |
| Swar | S, R, g, m | |
| P, D, n, S | S, R, G, M, | |
| P, D, N, S | ||
| # Concerts | 15 | 13 |
| # Artists | 15 | 12 |
| **# Repetitions | ||
| (L1, L2, L3, L4)** | 167, 39, 47, 47 | 94, 32, 35, 23 |
| Matra per min range | 138-200 | 111-203 |
We have chosen the following two bandish for our study
| Bandish Name | Raga | Taal | Lyrics | Lyrics (Transliterated) | Swar/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ja Ja Re | Bhimpalasi | Teentaal | Line 1: जा जारे अपने मंदिरवा | ||
| Line 2: सुन पावे गी सास ननदिया | |||||
| Line 3: सुनहो सदारंग तुम को चाहत हैं | |||||
| Line 4: क्या तुम हम को छगन दिया | Line 1: Jaa jaaRe APaNe MandiRaWaa | ||||
| Line 2: SuNa PaaWe Gii Saasa NaNadiYaa | |||||
| Line 3: SuNaHo SadaaRanGa tuMa Ko ChaaHata Hain | |||||
| Line 4: Kyaa tuMa HaMa Ko ChhaGaNa diYaa | S, R, g, m, P, D, n, S | ||||
| Yeri Aali | Yaman | Teentaal | Line 1: सखी एरी आली पिया बिन | ||
| Line 2: कलना परत मोहे घरी पल जिन दीन | |||||
| Line 3: जबसे पिया परदेश गवन कीनो | |||||
| Line 4: रतियाँ कटत मोहे तारे गिन गिन | Line 1: SaKhi YeRi AaLii PiYaa BiNa | ||||
| Line 2: KaLaNaa PaRata MoHe GhaRii PaLa JiNa diNa | |||||
| Line 3: JaBaSe PiYaa PaRadeSha GaWaNa KiiNo | |||||
| Line 4: RatiYaan KaTata MoHe taaRe GiNa GiNa | S, R, G, M, P, D, N, S |
Bandish: Yeri Ali, Raga: Yaman, Tala: Teental
Bandish: Ja Ja Re, Raga: Bhimpalasi, Tala: Teental