The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular
classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of
statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to
analyze musical structure using Rubato, the music software package for
statistical analysis, in particular addressing modeling, melodic
similarity and lengths, and entropy analysis; they then show how to
analyze musical performance. Finally, they explain how the concept of
seminatural composition can help a music composer to obtain the opening
line of a raga-based song using Monte Carlo simulation.
The book will be of interest to musicians and musicologists,
particularly those engaged with Indian music.