Empirical Musicology Review  

Daniel Müllensiefen,Daniel Shanahan

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Jane Harrison

This study examined notated meter changes in scores by French composers to probe the role of sociological mechanisms in musical stylistic change. The stylistic feature of notated meter changes, which indexed metrical complexity, was conducive to empirical... see more

Michael Rector

Studies of early 20th-century performance practice tend to focus on features that are alien to late 20th- and early 21st-century ears. Empirical analysis of timing in recordings of Chopin's Etude, Op. 25 no. 1—a piece for which performance style has remai... see more

Finn Upham,Julie Cumming

How did Renaissance listeners experience the polyphonic mass ordinary cycle in the soundscape of the church? We hypothesize that the textural differences in complexity between mass movements allowed listeners to track the progress of the service, regardle... see more

Daniel Muzzulini

In 1665 Isaac Newton wrote a notebook in which he collected materials for a musical treatise which was never completed. He investigated ways of approximately representing just intonation scales by dividing the octave into many equally sized intervals. Str... see more

Daniel Shanahan

On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding research methodology, public musicology, music and emotion, formal theory, the place of biology in music studies, and other topics. The second of ... see more

Samantha Burgess

This is a review of Harrison's (2021) paper "Social Mechanisms of Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France." In this study, Harrison found that the Apaches, a group of composers known for pushing stylistic boundaries in 20th-century F... see more

Thomas Noll

This text revisits selected aspects of Muzzulini's article and reformulates them on the basis of a three-dimensional interval space E and its dual E*. The pitch height of just intonation is conceived as an element h of the dual space. From octave-fifth-th... see more

Yke Schotanus

In his commentary on Schotanus 2020 "Singing and Accompaniment Support the Processing of Song Lyrics and Change the Lyrics", Lee (2020) discusses several methodological issues related to this article, proposes a reanalysis of part the data, and asks for a... see more