1. Sruti in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Contexts   by Dr.N.Ramanathan, Head, Department of Music, Madras University, Chennai on Sruthis. This article puts the entire subject in proper perspective and is a refreshing departure from the practice of assigning frequencies to the 22 sruthis (in my view, without adequate analytical evidence on present day music) The article was first published under the title "SRUTI-S ACCORDING TO ANCIENT TEXTS" in the Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, Baroda. Sept. & Dec.1981, Vol.12, No.s 3&4, pp.31-37. It was later revised and presented as a paper at seminar under the title "SRUTI - ITS UNDERSTANDING IN THE ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PERIODS" in the National Seminar on Perpetuation and Preservation of Indian Classical Music, Historical Continuity 2. The web site http://www.musicresearch.in/ maintained by Dr.N.Ramanathan has a large number of research oriented articles by different scholars.

 

3. Synthesizing Carnatic Music with a Computer. Article by M.Subramanian (author of this web site) published in Sangeet Natak (Journal of Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, India) No's 133,134, 1999, pp 16-24. 4. "An analysis of Gamakams using the Computer" by M.Subramanian published in Sangeet Natak, Vol.XXXVII, Number 1. 2002, pp 26-47. This article analyses the gamaakms of of Maayaamaalavagowla sung/played by different artistes and also has appendices on techniques of frequency analysis of digital music, the cyclic cent system etc. You can download gamcomp.zip the zipped version of this article 5. "Carnatic Ragam Thodi: Pitch Analysis of Notes and Gamakams" by M.Subramanian published in Sangeet Natak, VolXLI, No.1, 2007 pp 3-28. Download this in .pdf format (90 kb) . 6. "The 'Maya' of Pitch and Frequency" is an article by me included in the web site of Dr.Ramanathan (2 above) and explains the inappropriateness of totally correlating pitch and frequency especially for notes sung entirely with gamakam. Click here to download a zip file containing the article, the audio referred to therein and the Gaayaka file from which it was generated.

7. Arvindh Krishnaswamy , Stanford University, USA is working on the intonation in Carnatic Music using Digital Signal Processing. Two papers have been published by him (a)Pitch Measurements Versus Perception of South Indian Classical Music and (b) Appllication of Pitch Tracking to South Indian Classical Music . These are in .pdf format and may be downloaded from http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~arvindh/cmt/. This page also contains links to download the music clips which have been the subject of the analysis in the papers.