Goals
Learning Objectives
Our goals are:
To communicate the main concepts and techniques in modern empirical research.
To provide practical experience in research skills, including posing research questions, formulating and operationalizing hypotheses, designing experiments and questionnaires, and analyzing data.
To provide practical research advice.
To expose participants to examples of empirical music studies through lectures and readings.
To build critical skills when reading and interpreting empirical research studies — identifying both strengths and weaknesses.
To stimulate participants’ creative imaginations in posing and pursuing musical questions.
To provide sufficient background so that participants will feel confident in beginning their own program of empirical music research.
To identify resources for continuing education in empirical musicology.
To offer a philosophical framework for understanding how empirical methods can be contextualized within traditional concerns in the arts and humanities.