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Originally Posted by rakhra 
But that is not my point. What I am now looking to study is the notation, the construction and layout of the Guru Granth Sahib. I want to know, for instance, how someone could find the ' stanza or passage ' of their choice without knowing the page number in the Holy Granth. How, having found inspiration in a particular shabad-kirtan, I could locate the same ( lyrics ) in the Granth Sahib. In short, I would like to know the Granth Sahib so very thoroughly that I could write the software that I find missing on the Internet at present.
Waheguru Fateh !
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Rakhra ji
Thank you for clarifying your concerns. I have been locked out of the forum for a few hours because of a maintenance problem. And can only navigate partially at this time. Thus the delay in my reply.
Some of the answers to your questions can be found using gurbani search engines. The one that I use most often -- because it has most of the navigation tools that you have listed above -- is the one found at searchgurbani.org
The Sri Guru Granth Sahib can be searched by raag, by author (guru, bhagat, and sant), by page number, or by word and prhase (in English, Hindi, Transliteration, and Gurmukhi). The word and phrase search can be done using a variety of schemes including first letters of a word, by all the words, etc.) There is also an amrit kirtan section which can be searched. There are articles to provide background. And the site discusses the organization of the granth in one of its sections.
The location on the web is
http://www.searchgurbani.org
Another favorite is is SikhiToTheMax which has a number of the same features. However the site is not as easy to figure out and the Gurmukhi fonts used are not standard fonts read by most web site servers.
Both searchgurbani.org and SikhiToTheMax have desktop versions. You can download the granth and search off-line.