Paper Title
A Context Free Grammar for Improvisation Generation in North Indian Classical Music
Abstract
Is the capability to improvise only available to humans? Is it possible to generate musical phrases using Automata Theory? Is it possible to improvise in North Indian classical music using constructs like Context free grammars? In this paper we propose a method to generate improvised sequences for North Indian classical music using context free grammar. We choose to focus on yamanrāga as a case study. We discuss scope of the context free grammar, primary rules for context free grammar based on yamanrāga, rules for stationary, ascending, descending, circulating and microtonal patterns. We also discuss shortcomings of this approach in the discussion section.
Keywords - North Indian Classical Music, Improvised Sequence Generation, Context Free Grammar