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Approaches to Music Research

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?