Browsing Empirical Musicology Review: Volume 1, Number 1 (2006) by Title
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Border Crossings: A Commentary on Henkjan Honing's "On the Growing Role of Observation, Formalization and Experimental Method in Musicology"
Cook, Nicholas ( 2006-01 )In the early twentieth century systematic musicology, which was based on the comparative method, played a prominent role in the discipline: however it was appropriated by the Nazis and fell out of favour after the war. It ... -
A Cognitive Approach to Medieval Mode: Evidence for an Historical Antecedent to the Major/Minor System
Huron, David; Veltman, Joshua ( 2006-01 )A random sample of 98 Gregorian chants was used to assemble “mode profiles”—pitch-class distributions for each of eight medieval modes in the manner of Krumhansl’s and Kessler’s (1982) key profiles. These profiles are ... -
Comment on Huron and Veltman: Does a Cognitive Approach to Medieval Mode Make Sense?
Wiering, Frans ( 2006-01 )This commentary examines Huron and Veltman’s article from the perspective of historical musicology. The following issues are discussed: • The authors regard modes as conceptual categories of the medieval listener, which ... -
Commentary on Huovinen's "Varieties of Musical Empiricism"
Clarke, Eric F. ( 2006-01 )Erkki Huovinen’s “Varieties of Musicological Empiricism” provides a valuable analysis of some of the theoretical predicaments raised by pursuing an empirical musicology. But in this commentary, I argue for a less programmatic, ... -
Editor's Note
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On the Growing Role of Observation, Formalization and Experimental Method in Musicology
Honing, Henkjan ( 2006-01 )In the last two decades an important shift has occurred in music research, that is, from music as an art (or art object) to music as a process in which the performer, the listener, and music as sound play a central role. ... -
Varieties of Musicological Empiricism
Huovinen, Erkki ( 2006-01 )Empiricism should not be seen to provide an overarching criterion of meaningfulness for musicological concepts nor a single comprehensive methodology for music research. Understood as methodological concern with observation ...