Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects

by Nicholas Cook

The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kind of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516749X
• ISBN13: 9780195167498
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"