Computational musicology

Computational musicology is an interdisciplinary research area between musicology and computer science.[1] Computational musicology includes any disciplines that use computation in order to study music. It includes sub-disciplines such as mathematical music theory, computer music, systematic musicology, music information retrieval, digital musicology, sound and music computing, and music informatics.[2] As this area of research is defined by the tools that it uses and its subject matter, research in computational musicology intersects with both the humanities and the sciences. The use of computers in order to study and analyze music generally began in the 1960s,[3] although musicians have been using computers to assist them in the composition of music beginning in the 1950s. Today, computational musicology encompasses a wide range of research topics dealing with the multiple ways music can be represented.[4]

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  2. ^ Meredith, David (2016). "Preface". Computational Music Analysis. New York: Springer. p. v. ISBN 978-3319259291.
  3. ^ Hewlett, Walter B.; Selfridge-Field, Eleanor (1991). "Computing in Musicology, 1966-91". Computers and the Humanities. 25 (6): 381–392. doi:10.1007/BF00141188. JSTOR 30208121. S2CID 30204949.
  4. ^ Meinard, Müller (2015-07-21). Fundamentals of music processing : audio, analysis, algorithms, applications. Switzerland. ISBN 9783319219455. OCLC 918555094.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)