Empirical Musicology. Aims, Methods, Prospects

This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in the contemporary musicologist's toolkit, including perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and sociology of music.
Readership: Musicologists and music theorists.

CONTENIDO

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