Music and Science - A Guide to Empirical Research

Book titled Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research will be published in 2024 by Routledge.

The book is aimed as an introductory text to music undergraduates, postgraduates, and students in related disciplines.

The digital materials are available as Quarto notebooks with code examples in R or Python. All code is available at https://tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

Contents

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: History
  • Chapter 3: Contemporary Empirical Music Research
  • Chapter 4: Methods and Research Designs
  • Chapter 5: Sources of Information
  • Chapter 6: Data Organisation and Summaries
  • Chapter 7: Statistical Analysis
  • Chapter 8: Reporting
  • Chapter 9: Analysis of Scores and Performances
  • Chapter 10: Analysis of Audio
  • Chapter 11: Corpus Studies
  • Chapter 12: Summary and Future Directions