1. Taking Cultural Music Education Online
Sangeetkosh - A Virtual
Lab for Hindustani Music
Tejaswinee Kelkar
Anon Ray
Venkatesh Choppella
IIIT, Hyderabad and Janastu, Bangalore
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3. Music Education in
India
Many of the musicians who have
died recently or are very will take
their knowledge to the grave.
To sit at the feet of the master the
whole day, every day, for years
and years, is rapidly becoming a
social and economic impossibility.
Those who intend to become
musicians will have to take lessons
a few times a week and improve
their skills by practising at home.
The result however is that they
improve their technical ability but
their insight into the foundations
of the music remains shaky.
- Meer, W. Teaching Indian Music,
Coping with a changing environment. In
the Journal Sangeet Natak 79, January-
March 1986, pp. 53-57
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5. Where is all the knowledge?
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Voice
❖ Descriptive vs Prescriptive
Notation
❖ Oral Tradition and passing
down by memory
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7. What is lacking?
Music Semantics
Indexing metadata smaller than performance details
Datasets for tonal material and form and structure
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8. Sangeetkosh - Three Prongs
Annotations
Repository
Experiments
Annotations
describe
repository
Experiments
use annotated
repositories
Experiments
to annotate
content
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9. Experiments
❖ Pitch Difference - Are two musical tones are the
same or different?
❖ Pitch Direction - Which of the two musical tones is
higher?
❖ Explore sargam - Explore notation, sargam, play
music!
❖ Explore Thaats - Listen to the 10 Thaats
❖ Name Svar - Identify names of star
❖ Name String of Svar - Name svars in a row
❖ Trace a melody - Trace a melodic phrase
❖ Tabla or Dagga sound - Trace a melodic phrase
❖ Hear Bols - Trace a melodic phrase
❖ Raag Graph Interactive Visualization
❖ Raga Quiz
❖ Taal Quiz
❖ Instrument Quiz
❖ Lay Quiz
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10. Annotations
Focusing ontologies and annotations
towards the use case of music pedagogy
Linking content through stable and
sufficient descriptors
Ease in generating datasets from open
data
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14. Other Applications
Creating Quizzes
Quiz creation through the addition of
rule based constraints
Addition of propositional logic tables for
complex and inference-based question
creation
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16. 3 Test Users use lab for one week and report
User Profiles
Performing Musician - User 1 was a musician who
sings with a band, but did not formally study
music. Quizzes and Ear training drills most
useful.
Intermediate Musician - User 2 has studied music
for many years, but not recently. Regaining
musicianship strength primary motive.
Novice - User 3 is an avid music lover and
listener. Initial walkthrough experiments most
useful.
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17. Pre-post test scores for 12 users over 4 days
User Study
Pre lab use and post user experiments for
analyzing the scores obtained by 12
participants in the period of 4 days, solving
20 questions per day for 4 different tests.
Significant difference (0.011, 0.035, 0.19,
0.001) between before and after practise
scores of the 12 participants taken over 4
days.
Same or different notes Pitch Height
Note Naming MajorNote Naming: 1, 4, 5
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