Book titled Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research is published by Routledge (November 2024).
The book is aimed as an introductory text to music undergraduates, postgraduates, and students in related disciplines. See preview and contents at the publisher page.
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