Empirical Musicology : Aims, Methods, Prospects.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Eric.

Contributor:

Cook, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicology.

Empiricism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

1 Introduction: What Is Empirical Musicology?

2 Documenting the Musical Event: Observation, Participation, Representation

3 Musical Practice and Social Structure: A Toolkit

4 Music as Social Behavior

5 Empirical Methods in the Study of Performance

6 Computational and Comparative Musicology

7 Modeling Musical Structure

8 Analyzing Musical Sound

9 Data Collection, Experimental Design, and Statistics in Musical Research

INDEX

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Clarke, Eric Empirical Musicology

ISBN:

9780198037422

OCLC:

651973127