The world is full of events, and events are construed. One of the major research questions, there... more The world is full of events, and events are construed. One of the major research questions, therefore, seeks to understand the way events are construed through language. Event construals involve the syntacto-semantic properties of certain linguistic categories such as Verb, Tense, Aspect, Modality, etc. Serial Verb Constructions (SVC) and Complex Predicate Constructions (CPC) are no exception to this very fact. In this work, we look forward to compare both linear and non linear acoustical features generated from SVC and CPC events found in sentences of Bengali language. For this, we recorded 60 common utterances of Bengali language containing SVC and CPC events individually (around 36 of them belong to SV category while the rest belong to CP category), from 1 male and 1 female native Bengali speakers. The serial verb construction in these utterances may contain two (2) serial verbs in either simultaneous or sequential order, while few sentences are such that they can be interpreted ...
A perfect complementary relationship between the lyric and the melody can give birth to a beautif... more A perfect complementary relationship between the lyric and the melody can give birth to a beautiful song. The melodic expression of a song is universal but the lyrical expression is not – lyric is culture specific because of its language dependence. Can melody itself communicate the core emotions of a song? Or does the addition of a lyrical sense significantly change its emotional experience? This study looks for the answers focusing on a unique subgenre of Indian Classical Music –Ragashroyicompositions, where the melodic movements sincerely follow theRagapathways but the lyrics explore a much deeper and wider variety of emotions compared toRaga bandishes. Recordings were collected from two eminent vocalists (1 male, 1 female), each of whom was asked to sing (with proper lyrics) and hum (without meaningful lyrics) any two BengaliRagashroyicompositions of two opposite emotions – happiness and sadness. Hurst Exponents, obtained from robust non-linear Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DF...
Indeterminacy in music, a well known neo-avant-garde approach of composing sound where some featu... more Indeterminacy in music, a well known neo-avant-garde approach of composing sound where some features of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter’s free choice, became noticeable among some American music composers such as John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff in the mid 20th century. Simultaneously, a group of artists from the West created “abstract expressionism” in visual arts, which showed a strong resemblance with this “indeterminate music”, both using two kinds of abstract languages. The commonality among these two art forms is the free improvisation of creative activity. The correspondence between the indeterminate music induced emotions and the depicted emotional contents in paintings is a relevant area which is still scientifically unexplored. To investigate the same, we conducted a case study where a visual artist listened to four music clips composed by the above mentioned musicians and created four paintings. The visual artist is s...
The works of Rabindranath Tagore have been sung by various artistes over generations spanning ove... more The works of Rabindranath Tagore have been sung by various artistes over generations spanning over almost 100 years. there are few songs which were popular in the early years and have been able to retain their popularity over the years while some others have faded away. In this study we look to find cues for the singing style of these songs which have kept them alive for all these years. For this we took 3 min clip of four Tagore songs which have been sung by five generation of artistes over 100 years and analyze them with the help of latest nonlinear techniques Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). The multifractal spectral width is a manifestation of the inherent complexity of the signal and may prove to be an important parameter to identify the singing style of particular generation of singers and how this style varies over different generations. The results are discussed in detail.
Since the start of Indian cinema, a number of films have been made where a particular song is bas... more Since the start of Indian cinema, a number of films have been made where a particular song is based on a certain raga. These songs have been taking a major role in spreading the essence of classical music to the common people, who have no formal exposure to classical music. In this paper, we look to explore what are the particular features of a certain raga which make it understandable to common people and enrich the song to a great extent. For this, we chose two common ragas of Hindustani classical music, namely Bhairav and Mian ki Malhar which are known to have widespread application in popular film music. We have taken 3 minute clips of these two ragas from the renderings of two eminent maestros of Hindustani classical music. 3 min clips of ten (10) widely popular songs of Bollywood films were selected for analysis. These were analyzed with the help of a latest non linear analysis technique called Multifractal Detrended Cross correlation Analysis (MFDXA). With this technique, all...
Introduction: Music engages much of the brain, and coordinates a wide range of processing mechani... more Introduction: Music engages much of the brain, and coordinates a wide range of processing mechanisms. This naturally invites consideration of how music processing in the brain might relate to other complex dynamical abilities. The tremendous ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, and yet largely unexplained. Very little serious research has gone into the mechanisms behind music's ability to physically influence the brain, and the knowledge of the Abstract: Fractal technique has been applied to assess change of brain state when subjected to audio stimuli (in this case a simple music-drone). The Electroencephalography (EEG) time series has been used to perform this study and the corresponding non-linear waveform of EEG was analyzed with the widely used DFA technique. The investigation clearly indicates that FD which is a very sensitive parameter is capable of distinguishing brain state even with an acoustic signal of simple musical st...
The world is full of events, and events are construed. One of the major research questions, there... more The world is full of events, and events are construed. One of the major research questions, therefore, seeks to understand the way events are construed through language. Event construals involve the syntacto-semantic properties of certain linguistic categories such as Verb, Tense, Aspect, Modality, etc. Serial Verb Constructions (SVC) and Complex Predicate Constructions (CPC) are no exception to this very fact. In this work, we look forward to compare both linear and non linear acoustical features generated from SVC and CPC events found in sentences of Bengali language. For this, we recorded 60 common utterances of Bengali language containing SVC and CPC events individually (around 36 of them belong to SV category while the rest belong to CP category), from 1 male and 1 female native Bengali speakers. The serial verb construction in these utterances may contain two (2) serial verbs in either simultaneous or sequential order, while few sentences are such that they can be interpreted ...
A perfect complementary relationship between the lyric and the melody can give birth to a beautif... more A perfect complementary relationship between the lyric and the melody can give birth to a beautiful song. The melodic expression of a song is universal but the lyrical expression is not – lyric is culture specific because of its language dependence. Can melody itself communicate the core emotions of a song? Or does the addition of a lyrical sense significantly change its emotional experience? This study looks for the answers focusing on a unique subgenre of Indian Classical Music –Ragashroyicompositions, where the melodic movements sincerely follow theRagapathways but the lyrics explore a much deeper and wider variety of emotions compared toRaga bandishes. Recordings were collected from two eminent vocalists (1 male, 1 female), each of whom was asked to sing (with proper lyrics) and hum (without meaningful lyrics) any two BengaliRagashroyicompositions of two opposite emotions – happiness and sadness. Hurst Exponents, obtained from robust non-linear Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DF...
Indeterminacy in music, a well known neo-avant-garde approach of composing sound where some featu... more Indeterminacy in music, a well known neo-avant-garde approach of composing sound where some features of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter’s free choice, became noticeable among some American music composers such as John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff in the mid 20th century. Simultaneously, a group of artists from the West created “abstract expressionism” in visual arts, which showed a strong resemblance with this “indeterminate music”, both using two kinds of abstract languages. The commonality among these two art forms is the free improvisation of creative activity. The correspondence between the indeterminate music induced emotions and the depicted emotional contents in paintings is a relevant area which is still scientifically unexplored. To investigate the same, we conducted a case study where a visual artist listened to four music clips composed by the above mentioned musicians and created four paintings. The visual artist is s...
The works of Rabindranath Tagore have been sung by various artistes over generations spanning ove... more The works of Rabindranath Tagore have been sung by various artistes over generations spanning over almost 100 years. there are few songs which were popular in the early years and have been able to retain their popularity over the years while some others have faded away. In this study we look to find cues for the singing style of these songs which have kept them alive for all these years. For this we took 3 min clip of four Tagore songs which have been sung by five generation of artistes over 100 years and analyze them with the help of latest nonlinear techniques Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). The multifractal spectral width is a manifestation of the inherent complexity of the signal and may prove to be an important parameter to identify the singing style of particular generation of singers and how this style varies over different generations. The results are discussed in detail.
Since the start of Indian cinema, a number of films have been made where a particular song is bas... more Since the start of Indian cinema, a number of films have been made where a particular song is based on a certain raga. These songs have been taking a major role in spreading the essence of classical music to the common people, who have no formal exposure to classical music. In this paper, we look to explore what are the particular features of a certain raga which make it understandable to common people and enrich the song to a great extent. For this, we chose two common ragas of Hindustani classical music, namely Bhairav and Mian ki Malhar which are known to have widespread application in popular film music. We have taken 3 minute clips of these two ragas from the renderings of two eminent maestros of Hindustani classical music. 3 min clips of ten (10) widely popular songs of Bollywood films were selected for analysis. These were analyzed with the help of a latest non linear analysis technique called Multifractal Detrended Cross correlation Analysis (MFDXA). With this technique, all...
Introduction: Music engages much of the brain, and coordinates a wide range of processing mechani... more Introduction: Music engages much of the brain, and coordinates a wide range of processing mechanisms. This naturally invites consideration of how music processing in the brain might relate to other complex dynamical abilities. The tremendous ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, and yet largely unexplained. Very little serious research has gone into the mechanisms behind music's ability to physically influence the brain, and the knowledge of the Abstract: Fractal technique has been applied to assess change of brain state when subjected to audio stimuli (in this case a simple music-drone). The Electroencephalography (EEG) time series has been used to perform this study and the corresponding non-linear waveform of EEG was analyzed with the widely used DFA technique. The investigation clearly indicates that FD which is a very sensitive parameter is capable of distinguishing brain state even with an acoustic signal of simple musical st...
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