Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects. Edited by Eric Clarke and Nicholas Cook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. [viii, 229 p., ISBN 0-19-516749-X. $99.] Music examples, illustrations, index, bibliographies.
Statistics in Musicology. By Jan Beran. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004. [viii, 299 p. ISBN 1-58488-219-0. $71.94.] Music examples, illustrations, index, bibliography.
Recent decades have witnessed a significant rise in scientifically-inspired music research. This expansion is apparent, for example, in the founding of several journals, including Psychomusicology (founded 1981), Empirical Studies in the Arts (1982), Music Perception (1983), …