Empirical musicology : aims, methods, prospects

摘要: The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against kind external reality. But musicology, the kinds empirical approaches familiar social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology sociology music. Rather than advocating new Empirical Musicology provides guide are ready for incorporation into contemporary musicologist's toolkit. Its nine chapters cover perspectives from theory, computational ethnomusicology, music, well an introduction musical data analysis statistics. This book shows could play important role further development discipline whole, not only through application statistical modeling methods scores but also--and perhaps more importantly--in terms understanding complex practice.