SangeetKosh: An Open Web Platform for Music Education

In this paper, we present the construction and architecture of SangeetKosh: an open platform for studying North Indian or Hindustani Classical Music (HCM) on the web. This platform works on a three faceted architecture - to provide musical experiments, quizzes and drills, to host and find repositories of music, to semantically link and annotate pre-existing musical content on the web using open linked data methods. We describe the ways in which this application caters to the cultural and social problems of music students of HCM. This application is also structured to be sensitive to local context, with easy ways to translate into local languages, and make the platform accessible to a larger demographic. We present user experiments through case studies and pre and post tests to display how users are benefited by the application.