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Commentary on Huovinen's "Varieties of Musical Empiricism"
Erkki Huovinen’s “Varieties of Musicological Empiricism” provides a valuable analysis of some of the theoretical predicaments raised by pursuing an empirical musicology.
Eric F. Clarke
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A Statistical Model for Melody Reduction [PDF]
A commonly-cited reason for the poor performance of automatic chord estimation (ACE) systems within music information retrieval (MIR) is that non-chord tones (i.e., notes outside the supporting harmony) contribute to error during the labeling process.
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Woodward and Hoffmann. Hoffmann and Woodward. A Close Collaboration Had Yet to Begin**
Roald Hoffmann's laboratory notebooks and letters provide an inside glimpse into his relationship with R. B. Woodward and the history of the Woodward‐Hoffmann rules. Abstract In 1965, R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann published five communications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in which they outlined the mechanisms of ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Is Musicology (Only) One of the Humanities?
Today, a general definition of musicology is both precise and imprecise: it is a study of music. This recent scientific discipline was established by Guido Adler in his 1885 paper The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology, although there had been many ...
Ana Popović
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Framing Visual Musicology through Methodology Transfer [PDF]
In this position paper, we frame the field of Visual Musicology by providing an overview of well-established musicological sub-domains and their corresponding analytic and visualization tasks. To foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research, we discuss relevant data and domain characteristics.
arxiv
A Dataset for Greek Traditional and Folk Music: Lyra [PDF]
Studying under-represented music traditions under the MIR scope is crucial, not only for developing novel analysis tools, but also for unveiling musical functions that might prove useful in studying world musics. This paper presents a dataset for Greek Traditional and Folk music that includes 1570 pieces, summing in around 80 hours of data. The dataset
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Musicology in German Universities
Current Musicology, No 9 (1969): Current ...
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This study compares rhythm processing under two conditions—high pitch predictability (tonal music) and low pitch predictability (atonal music)—while keeping the temporal information of the stimuli constant. More predictable pitch is associated with better behavioral rhythm tracking (finger‐tapping) and decreased cortical rhythm tracking, potentially ...
Anne Keitel+8 more
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Hudební věda v Brně po roce 1989
The paper examines the situation and scholarly activities of Brno musicology in the last 25 years, follows musicological institutions at universities, especially the Institute od Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, but also the Faculty of ...
Petr Macek
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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