Comment by tempaccount5050

> Is there some evidence of systematic analysis of component parts?

Music theory, Nashville notation

> attempts to model elements of the problem?

Ditto

> data gathering and data analysis?

Listening to a wide variety of music and understanding what make a genre a genre

> simulation?

Cover songs, writing to a style

> Intentional application of principles of physics or some other pure domain to a real world problem?

Literally sound engineering