Methods in Empirical Music Research
DAY 1 PROGRAM
- Welcome & Introduction
- Generals Aims & Preview
- Learning objectives
- Empirical Research
- Types of knowledge
- Seven big ideas
- A line in the sand
- Refutation versus confirmation
- Operationalizing terms and concepts
- Comparison & counterfactuals
- The rhetoric of science (video - 8 minutes)
- Review the first 9 slogans: Quiz #1
- Group Task #1: What’s worth knowing?
- Questions, conjectures, hypotheses and theories
- Group Task #2: Question, theory or hypothesis?
- Grandmother research
- The quantitative/measurement obsession
- Group Task #3: Obvious theories; Group task debriefing Hindsight bias; Grandmother research revisited
- Two forms of reductionism
- Epistephobia; Types of failure
- Review (first 12) slogans
- Types of Empirical Studies
- Types of empirical studies
- Group Task #4: Types of studies
- Generalizing versus universalizing (video - 10 minutes)
- Exploratory studies
- Measurement studies
- Hypothesislessness
- Group Task #5: Operationalize the following hypotheses
- Syncopation: From question to hypothesis
- Opinions as operationalizations
- Double use data; post hoc theories
- Exploratory & Confirmatory: Contexts of discovery & legitimation (lecture)
- Explore-then-test approach; An example
- From question to theory to conjecture to hypothesis to protocol
- Review (first 16) slogans
- Feedback Day 1
- Homework
- Homework 1: Reading: An Arts and Humanities Approach to Empirical Methodology
- Homework 2: Reading Guide #1: Lancashire & Hirst (2009)
- Homework 3: Individual Task #6: From question to theory