Akshara transcription of mrudangam strokes in Carnatic music
Jom Kuriakose, Jagadeesha Kumar, Sarala Padi, Hema A. Murthy, Umayalpuram Sivaraman · 2015
Percussion instruments play a significant role in Carnatic music concerts. The percussion artist enjoys a great degree of freedom in improvising within the defined tāla structure of a composition. The objective of this paper is to transcribe the improvisations, treating the percussion strokes as syllables or aksharas.