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Musicae Scientiae

Musicae Scientiae


eISSN: 20454147 | ISSN: 10298649 | Current volume: 28 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly


MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ (the Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music) publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical and critical articles directed at increasing the understanding of how music is perceived, represented and generated. To that end, all empirical work, including replication studies and meta-analyses, within the music-related domains of empirical musicology, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, music education, artificial intelligence, and music theory will be considered for publication

Individual subscriptions to the journal are available through membership of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Please see the society web page for more details: http://escom.org/society-membership.html

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MSX

MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ (the Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music) publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical and critical articles directed at increasing the understanding of how music is perceived, represented and generated. To that end, all empirical work, including replication studies and meta-analyses, within the music-related domains of empirical musicology, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, music education, artificial intelligence, and music theory will be considered for publication.

Editor-in-Chief
Jane Ginsborg Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Founding Editor
Irène Deliège University of Liège, Belgium
Deputy Editor
Andrea Schiavio Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
Book Reviews Editor
Ruth Herbert University of Kent, UK
Associate Editors
Michele Biasutti University of Padova, Italy
Karen Burland University of Leeds, UK
Hauke Egermann Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Klaus Frieler Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
Ruth Herbert University of Kent, UK
Timothy Justus Pitzer College, California, USA
Reinhard Kopiez Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany
Alexandra Lamont Department of Psychology, Keele University, UK
Ioulia Papageorgi University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Jonna Vuoskoski University of Oslo, Norway
Allan Vurma Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonia
Anna Wolf University of Hamburg, Germany
Consulting Editors
David M. Greenberg Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Rytis Ambrazevicius Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Porta Navarro Amparo Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Claudia Bullerjahn Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Clément Canonne CNRS-IRCAM, France
Julian Cespedes Guevara University of Icesi, Colombia
Alice Chirico Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy
Anthony Chmiel University of Sydney, Australia
Ana Clemente University of Barcelona, Spain
Susanna Cohen Bar Ilan University, Israel
Nathaniel Condit-Schultz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Anja-Xiaoxing Cui University of Osnabrück, Germany
Caroline Curwen The University of Sheffield, UK
Franziska Degé Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
Alison Farley Raffle University of Georgia, USA
Alinka Greasley University of Leeds, UK 
Carl Hancock University of Alabama, USA
Niels Christian Hansen Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark
Erkki Huovinen Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden
Kelly Jakubowski Durham University, UK
Haley Kragness University of Toronto, Canada
Oswaldo Lorenzo University of Granada, Spain
Lucy Mawang Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Luc Nijs Ghent University, Belgium
Ariadna Ortiz Brugués Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Clorinda Panebianco University of Pretoria, South Africa
Emily Payne University of Leeds, UK
Friedrich Platz University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
Sarah Price University of Liverpool, UK
Mark Reybrouck Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jesper Rydén Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Kai Siedenburg University of Oldenburg, Germany
Michael Silverman University of Minnesota USA
Eline Smit Western Sydney University, Australia
João Soares-Quadros Jr Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg Norwegian Academy of Music, Norway
Miloš Stankovic Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Jochen Steffens Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jan Stupacher Aarhus University, Denmark
Marco Susino Flinders University, Australia
Caitlyn Trevor University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marc Vidal Ghent University, Belgium
Cecilia Wallerstedt University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Matthew Woolhouse McMaster University, Canada
Joanne Yeoh Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Naomi Ziv College of Management, Israel
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents - Arts & Humanities
  • Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIHPLUS)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.

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