Musicology, Statistics in

Abstract

Quantitative musicology is a relatively new field of statistical applications that is increasingly important due to the availability of digitized data. In principle, all fields of statistical theory are potentially useful. In contrast to genuinely quantitative sciences, many questions in musicology have no unique ‘correct’ answer, and often no strictly objective optimality criterion exists to find an optimal solution to a problem. In this paper, some typical examples illustrate the role of statistics in musicology