Assessment of musical quality of tanpura by fractal-dimensional analysis

Fractals

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 245-252

  Sengupta, R ^a   Dey, N ^a   Datta, A K ^a   Ghosh, D ^b  

^a ITC Sangeet Research Academy   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fractal Dimensions; Multifractality; Musical Quality; Nonlinearity; Tanpura

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; JITTER; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; MULTIFRACTALITY; MUSICAL QUALITY; NONLINEARITY; TANPURA;

FRACTALS;

EID: 24044467119     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X05002891     Document Type: Article

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