Music Analysis and the Computer
Raymond F. Erickson · Journal of Music Theory · 1968
In spite of the ever-increasing use and acceptance of modern data processing equipment for humanistic research, there would appear to be, judging from one stormy session at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society at Santa Barbara in 1967, a widening gulf between scholars who pursue the traditional methods of historical musicology and those who have adopted the computer as their chief research tool. This unfortunate and unnecessary division stems largely from a mis-