My music theory teacher used to say that that music is the only art that's also a science. I think this headline should not be surprising to anyone who reads music.
I see philology/linguistics as quite science-y too. You can argue that's just the building blocks of the art (literature), but so is the science-y side of music (which we call "musical language" in Spanish conservatories, see the parallel?) and mostly deals with "syntax" and historical accidents inherited from the western Common Practice Period.
The artsy side of music is very much un-sciency and mostly rationalized post-hoc.
