Nativity based raga identification systems

Computational Musicology is a new and emerging field which draws heavily from Computer Science, particularly Data mining (cataloging through data to identify patterns and establish relationships). The relationship among patterns provides information for the ragas. It can be converted into knowledge about historical patterns and future trends. Raga is an attractive combination of notes, engaging tonal context. Western Music has been under the gaze of this community for quite some time. However, Indian music has remained relatively untouched. Generating script for a musical composition and identifying raga in Indian Classical music is a tedious and time consuming task. Here, we depict a system which takes an audio file as an input identifies the language and instruments which will give nativity of music and converts it into sequence of notes, identifies the raga. The system is analyzed for 55 different rags and tested for 20 different ragas. The system performs with a result of 85%.