Systematic and Comparative Musicology: Concepts, Methods, Findings

Contents : Albrecht Schneider: Foundations of Systematic Musicology: a study in history and theory - Oskar Elschek: Systematic Musicology - anachronism or challenge? A perspective on disciplinary and scientific developments - Marc Leman: Systematic Musicology at the crossroads of modern music research - Rolf Inge Godøy: Reflections on chunking in music - Daniel Müllensiefen/Geraint Wiggins/David Lewis: High-level feature descriptors and corpus-based musicology: Techniques for modelling music cognition - Klaus Frieler: Metrical circle map and metrical Markov chains - Christiane Neuhaus: Auditory Gestalt perception and the dissociation between pitch and time: ERP studies on processing musical sequence structure - Rolf Bader: Efficient auditory coding of a xylophone bar - Arne von Ruschkowski: Loudness war - Markus Abel: Synchronization of organ pipes - Andreas Beurmann/Albrecht Schneider: Acoustics of the harpsichord: a case study - Kai Lothwesen: Systematic Musicology and music education. An empirical investigation into research topics in German music education - Bruno Nettl: Comparative study and Comparative Musicology: comments on disciplinary history - Tiago de Oliveira Pinto: Music and the Tropics: on goals and achievements of Ethnomusicology in Brazil - Jukka Louhivuri: Lutheran hymn singing in African context: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren vs. Rena Morena wa matla! - Gerhard Kubik: Zur Mathematik und Geschichte der afrikanischen time-line-Formeln - Ulrich Morgenstern: Der Skobarja von Velikie Lukje und angrenzende instrumental-vokale Formen im Gebiet Tver' (ethnische und ethnomusikalische Identität).

The Editor: Albrecht Schneider, born in 1949, works in Systematic Musicology as well as in Comparative Musicology at the University of Hamburg. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and in several European institutions. He is a founding member of the International Cooperation in Systematic and Comparative Musicology, and was co-editor of the scientific journal Systematische Musikwissenschaft - Systematic Musicology.