About Applying Probabilistic-Static Methods in Studying Regular Laws of Music and Musical-Pedagogical Research Works

Abstract

In the mid-20th century musicology and the contiguous disciplines presented a
set of farsighted ideas containing broad possibilities for studying the factors of uncertainty
in the system of musical thought and partially anticipating analogous ideas in the sphere of
exact sciences. The article examines a set of probabilistic-statistical methods in application to
researching the regular laws of music, and also carries out elaborations devoted to applying
these methods to musical-pedagogical practice. The authors of the article draw special attention
to musical-computer technologies, which received development at the turn of the 20th and the
21st centuries as means of studying music within the framework of the system of contemporary
musical education on its various levels – professional and supplementary professional. The
article also elucidates certain issues of inclusive musical education connected with the mastery
of probabilistic-statistical regular laws of music, including the logic and the technique of
musical composition. Characterization is provided to the complex research and scholarlymethodic
elaborations undertaken by the Tutorial-Methodological Laboratory “Music Computer
Technologies” affiliated with the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, which served
as the basis for development of music scholarship and the practice of music composition and
exerted an influence on the musical culture of the early 21st century.

Keywords: algorithmic composition, probabilistic-statistical methods in musicology, music
computer technologies, musical education, Tutorial-Methodological Laboratory “Music Computer
Technologies,” Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia