Music & Science
Music & Science is a new peer-reviewed open access online journal published by SAGE in association with SEMPRE.
Our point of departure is the idea that science—or, more accurately, the sciences—can help us to make sense of music and its significance in our lives. Music exists in complex and diverse forms across historical time and within and across different societies; music is indisputably a cultural phenomenon but our musicality is grounded in our biology; we need to draw on the sciences to address music's biological materiality, but we must also be attuned to the distinctive functional and discursive properties that are embodied in different cultures' musics.
Hence the need for this journal, which is intended to provide a peer-reviewed platform for researchers to communicate important new insights in music research from the full spectrum of relevant scientific and scholarly perspectives to the widest possible audience. We aim to publish research across the field of music and science as broadly conceived, encompassing studies in cognition, neuroscience and psychoacoustics; development and education; philosophy and aesthetics; ethnomusicology and music sociology; archaeology and ethology; music theory, analysis and historical studies; performance science and practice-based research; computational approaches and studies in digital culture; acoustics, sound studies, and soundscape studies; music therapy; and clinical implications and approaches, including psychoneuroimmunology, health and well-being. Our goal is to be truly interdisciplinary: to give researchers from the many different scientific traditions that have been applied to music the opportunity to communicate with—and to learn from—each other, while encouraging dialogue with music scholars whose work is situated in artistic, performative or humanistic domains. In short, we aim to publish research from any discipline or perspective that can illuminate—or that can be illuminated by—scientific approaches to understanding music.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Article processing charge (APC)
The APC for Music & Science is currently 1100 USD. The APC is based on the date of original peer review submission. The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that published articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
If you do not have grant funding to cover the APC costs, or genuinely cannot raise the funds to cover the Article Processing Charge (APC) then the corresponding author should submit a discount request to SAGE, by emailing apcqueries@sagepub.com when payment is requested. More information can be found here: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/gold-open-access-article-processing-charge-waivers.
A 50% discount on the prevailing APC rate is available to all members of SEMPRE.
The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mns.
Music & Science welcomes original research, commentaries and reviews, and sets no upper or lower limit on article length. As the journal is online it can host audio and video files. It has an open data policy; authors should be prepared to share and to make freely available data sets as well as relevant musical materials—audiovisual, sonic and notated. Authors are also encouraged to publish a summary of their research in audiovisual or podcast form alongside their submission to highlight for a non-specialist audience the significance of their research in the broad field of music and science as well as its potential impact.
Publication will be continuous and we aim to ensure a turn-around time for submissions that is as fast as is commensurate with a rigorous reviewing process.
| Ian Cross | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Graham Welch | University College London, UK |
| Adam Ockelford | University of Roehampton, UK |
| Scott Bannister | School of Music, University of Leeds, UK |
| Trevor Agus | SARC, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast, UK |
| Eckart Altenmüller | Institut für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany |
| José Luis Aróstegui | Music Education Department, University of Granada, Spain |
| Jörg Fachner | Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, UK |
| Simone Falk | Département de Linguistique et de Traduction, Université de Montréal, Canada |
| Claudia Fritz | Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université, France |
| Andrew Goldman | Department of Music Theory, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, USA |
| Mark Gotham | King’s College London, UK |
| Jessica Grahn | Brain and Mind Institute & Department of Psychology, Western University, Canada |
| Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir | School of Education, University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Frank Hentschel | Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Beatriz Ilari | Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, USA |
| Kelly Jakubowski | Department of Music, University of Durham, UK |
| Alexander Refsum Jensenius | RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion & Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway |
| Youn Kim | Department of Music, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Elaine King | School of Arts, University of Hull, UK |
| Sebastian Klotz | Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| Joel Krueger | Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK |
| Alexandra Lamont | Department of Psychology, Keele University, UK |
| Jennifer MacRitchie | Department of Music, University of Sheffield, UK |
| Isabel Martínez | Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina |
| Tomas McAuley | School of Music, University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Orii McDermott | Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK |
| David Meredith | Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| Diana Omigie | Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Emily Payne | School of Music, University of Leeds, UK |
| Jessica Pitt | Royal College of Music, UK |
| Daniela Sammler | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
| Patrick Savage | School of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan |
| Andrea Schiavio | School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, UK |
| Neta Spiro | Royal College of Music, UK |