Mathematical and computational approaches to music: Challenges in an interdisciplinary enterprise

Anja Volk*, Aline Honingh

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Abstract

This Special Issue is dedicated to explicate and discuss methodological issues in the interdisciplinary research field of mathematical and computational approaches to music. It arose from a lively panel discussion at the third International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music 2011 in Paris. We have organized this panel in order to initiate the much needed interdisciplinary dialogue on the How, Why, and What of our modelling of and theorizing about music in the wide field of science, humanities and cognitive approaches to music research. From the contributions of the three panelists to this Special Issue, we extract key topics that the interdisciplinary scientific community needs to address in order to enable the different disciplines to productively complement one another in achieving a comprehensive approach to music as a complex, yet fundamental human trait.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)73-81
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Mathematics and Music
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2012
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We thank Thomas Noll and Robert Peck for giving us the opportunity to organize and edit this Special Issue, and for their advise on various issues. Many thanks go to the three authors, Alan Marsden, Guerino Mazzola, and Geraint Wiggins, for their contributions, interesting exchanges, and feedback. We thank Bas de Haas, Marcelo Rodríguez-López, Frans Wiering, and Remco Veltkamp for comments on an earlier draft of this text. Anja Volk is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO-VIDI grant (276.35.001). Aline Honingh is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, partly through an NWO-VENI grant (639.021.126) and partly through an NWO-VICI grant to Rens Bod (277.70.006).

Keywords

  • computation
  • interdisciplinary research
  • mathematics
  • musicology

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