Books in the Methodology of Music Research series

Approaches to Music Research

A series of articles, each with an extensive bibliography, provides historical and critical reflections on developments of computer-assisted music analysis up to the 1970s. The source materials consist of hundreds of published and unpublished writings from around the world. An alphabetical and a chronological bibliography are also provided.

Examines music preferences across a range of cultures in Finland, Slovenia, South Africa and Texas to get a better sense of cultural and demographic moderators of preferences across a wide variety of musical genres. This study is confined to a rather specific sample of listeners: especially students, and also faculty and staff at universities.

This collection of essays explores a wide range of topics current in the field of music theory, including history of styles, musical aesthetics, harmony, counterpoint and world music. Authors reflect critically on challenges within their specific areas of expertise and probe directions in which advances can be made and difficulties overcome.

The author displays versatile cases of the intersection of music and mathematics, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about "mathesis" to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other arts, and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions.

This book offers critical demonstrations of various methods and concepts currently used in music analysis. Among the subjects are musical implications, tonal analysis, generative theory, ambiguity, similarity, and the key criteria met with in lawsuits of plagiarism. Finally, can a composer's sexual leanings be derived from his music?