Musicological Archaeology and Constança Capdeville

Introducing Composed Instruments: Technical and Musicological Implications

In this paper, we develop the concept of “composed instruments”. We will look at this idea from two perspectives: the design of computer systems in the context of live performed music and musicological considerations. A historical context is developed. Examples will be drawn from recent compositions. Finally basic concepts from computer science will be examined for their relation ship to this c...

musicSpace : Improving Access to Musicological Data

1 musicSpace: Improving Access to Musicological Data mc schraefel, David Bretherton, Daniel Alexander Smith, and Joe Lambert Problem Not unlike the sciences, musicological data is widely distributed and exists in numerous formats and in many databases. Efforts over the past decade to digitize bibliographies, artists’ works lists, recordings, program guides and related ephemera should mean that ...

Commentary on Huovinen’s “Varieties of Musicological Empiricism”

Erkki Huovinen’s “Varieties of Musicological Empiricism” provides a valuable analysis of some of the theoretical predicaments raised by pursuing an empirical musicology. But in this commentary, I argue for a less programmatic, and more pragmatic, approach to the term than he does. Empirical approaches in musicology have been around in one form or another for a long time, and the purpose of the ...

On Evolutionary Ecology, Selectionist Archaeology, and Behavioral Archaeology

Archaeology and geostatistics

Geostatistics is used in many different disciplines to characterise spatial variation and for spatial prediction, spatial simulation and sampling design. Archaeology is an inherently spatial discipline and the models and tools provided by geostatistics should be as valuable in archaeology as they are in other disciplines that are concerned with spatially varying properties. However, there have,...