I am using this opportunity to express my gratitude to everyone who supported me throughout the Master of Engineering course. I am thankful for their aspiring guidance, invaluable constructive criticism, and friendly advice during the project work. I am sincerely grateful to them for sharing their truthful and illuminating views on a number of issues related to the project.Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Wen Changyun for guiding me in the thesis writing and helping me in all the time of thesis submission. I would also like to thank Prof. Er Meng Joo for providing me this great opportunity to pursue Masters in the prestigious NTU Singapore. I would like to thank him for the continuous support of my Masters' study and related research, for his patience, motivation, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and other career matters. I could not have imagined working on this research project without his motivation and appreciation towards my research topic. He gave me the freedom to choose my research topic according to my interest and continuously guided me to work in the right direction.Besides my supervisor, I would like to thank the rest of my friends and seniors in NTU for their insightful comments and encouragement, but also for the hard question which incented me to widen my research from various perspectives.Last but not least, I would like to thank my brother who supported me all throughout my research and encouraged me to work in the right direction. My sincere thanks also go to my parents who made it possible for me to grab this opportunity and never missed a chance to encourage me and support me in any manner possible. vii viii xi xii List of Tables 4.1 Results showing Voice stability and number of notes in ideal range for 5 subjects of basic alankara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Notes in range for 5 subjects of basic alankara . . . . . . . . . 4.3 Pitch Accuracy of 5 subjects in Hz for basic alankara . . . . . 4.4 Results showing Voice stability and number of notes in ideal range for 5 subjects of general alankara . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 Results showing Voice stability and number of notes in ideal range for instrumental recordings of general alankara . . . . . 4.6 Pitch Accuracy of 5 subjects in Hz for general alankara . . . . 4.7 Notes in range for 5 subjects of general alankara . . . . . . . . 4.8 Pitch Accuracy of two different scales of Harmonium in Hz . .
