books.google.com - The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kind of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted...http://books.google.com/books/about/Empirical_Musicology_Aims_Methods_Prospe.html?id=jJg-IyOsvnYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEmpirical Musicology : Aims, Methods, Prospects
