Unfolding the Potential of Computational Musicology

This paper addresses current chances and challenges in computational musicology. Computational musicology is a genuinely interdisciplinary research area that requires the contribution of questions, methods and insights from both musicology and computer science. This paper demonstrates how computational approaches to musicological questions generate new perspectives for musicology. In turn, computational musicology has the potential to become an indispensible partner for computer science in Music Information Retrieval. We argue that, for unfolding the potential of computational musicology, the full interdisciplinary enterprise has yet to be realized and we discuss examples of promising collaborative