Music and Science

A Guide to Empirical Research
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-227709-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music

Music and Science provides an introduction and practical guidance for a scientific and systematic approach to music research. Students with a background in Humanities may find the field hard to tackle and this accessible guide will show them how to consider using an appropriate range of methods, and to introduce them to current standards of research practices including research ethics, open access, and using computational tools such as R for analysis. These research methods are used to identify the underlying patterns behind the data to better understand how music is constructed and how we are influenced by music. The book focusses on music perception and the experience of music that are approached through empirical experiments, and by analysing music that is carried out by computational tools spanning audio and score materials. The process of research, collaboration and publishing in this area of study is also explained and emphasis is given to transparent and replicable research principles. The book will be essential reading for students undertaking empirical projects, particularly in the area of music psychology but also in digital humanities and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eerola, Tuomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Series Editor Preface

1 Introduction

2 History

2.1 Prehistory

2.2 19th Century Foundations

2.3 Early 20th Century

2.4 Late 20th century

3 Contemporary Empirical Music Research

3.1 Scientific vs Humanistic Musicology

3.2 Scientific Musicology as a Subset of Empirical Music Research

3.3 Core Values of Empirical Music Research

3.4 Institutional Position of Empirical Music Research

4 Methods in Empirical Music Research

4.1 Research Process 

4.2 Research Conduct and Ethics 

4.3 Research Transparency 

4.4 Research Designs

5 Sources of Information in Empirical Music Research

5.1 Music 

5.2 Observations and Interviews 

5.3 Self-reports

5.4 Behavioural Measures 

5.5 Physiological Measures

5.6 Research Contexts

5.7 Samples and Participants

6 Data Diagnostics and Summaries

6.1 Transparent Analysis Tools 

6.2 Organisation of the Analysis Workflow 

6.3 Pre-processing and Quality Control 

6.4 Post-processing and Open Data 

6.5 Tools for Data Analysis 

6.6 Diagnostic Visualisations and Descriptives

6.7 Qualitative Analysis

7 Statistical Analysis

7.1 Inferential Statistics 

7.2 Group Comparisons 

7.3 Relationships Between Continuous Variables

7.4 Modelling

8 Reporting and Craftsmanship

8.1 Reporting Structures 

8.2 Reporting Conventions 

8.3 Publishing Research 

8.4 Authorship 

8.5 Peer Review 

8.6 Craftsmanship

9 Analysis of Scores and Performances

9.1 Analysis of Scores

9.2 Analysis of Performances

10 Analysis of Audio

10.1 Audio Analysis Basics

10.2 Physical Descriptors

10.3 Perceptual Descriptors

10.4 Semantic Descriptors

11 Corpus Studies

11.1 Corpus Elements

11.2 Example Corpora

11.3 Corpus Studies Workflow

12 Summary and Future Directions

12.1 Focus on Musical Processes

12.2 Increase Diversity

12.3 Challenges and Opportunities

12.3 Applications

12.4 Future Prospects

Appendices

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tuomas Eerola is Professor of Music Cognition in the Department of Music, University of Durham