Statistical musicology with therapeutic applications
Soubhik Chakraborty, Nimisha Katyayan · MOJ Biology and Medicine · 2023
Scientists through their studies have revealed the healing powers of music in controlling blood pressure, negative emotions and stress. Statistics and probability have been used to analyze music successfully both in western and non-western (including Indian) music. This short communication gives what we are planning to do in our ongoing project titled Hindustani Raga Analysis Using Statistical Musicology with therapeutic applications for stress management sponsored by IDEA: Technology Innovation Hub@Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The work done so far in the past few months is briefed.