A Dissertation presented at Indian Institute of Technology in Candidacy for the Degree of Bachelor of Technology. This work has been carried out during 2004-2007 at the Electronics and Communication Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India (IITG).
I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna for making it possible for me to start working on the Music Information Retrieval problem in 2004, for his help and advice during this work, and for his contribution and moral support.