Digitizing North Indian Music. Preservation and Extension using Multimodal Sensor Systems, Machine Learning and Robotics

NON-WESTERN MELODIC RESOURCES This modal experimentation opened up the jazz world to other cultures and musics which were not organized with vertical chord structures but horizontally with the melodic elements. Indian music - with its characteristic drone, scale system, and rhythmic patterns attracted much attention. It was not so much a complete acceptance of this musical system but attempts at fusion. USE OF QUARTAL HARMONY Our traditional musical system is based on harmony constructed of superimposed thirds - but this is not the only system resulting in vertical structures. Quartal harmonic and melodic organization was another - again a way of reflecting or expanding beyond the limitation dictated by tradition. Melodic and Thematic material in parallel, consecutive, and displaced fourths - accompanied by chords constructed of superimposed 4ths were increasingly used. In some ways this was an extension of the chromatic harmony of the 50’s - a search for a new ‘sound’ but closely related to previous practice ...»