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Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view. The term was coined by Nils L. Wallin in 1991 to encompass several branches of music psychology and musicology, including evolutionary musicology, neuromusicology, and comparative musicology.
Mar 3, 2015 · ‘Bio-musicology’ is the biological study of musicality in all its forms. Human ‘musicality’ refers to the set of capacities and proclivities that allows our species to generate and enjoy music in all of its diverse forms.
- W. Tecumseh Fitch
- 2015
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Apr 7, 2024 · Musicology, the scholarly and scientific study of music. It covers a wide and heterogeneous area of research and is concerned with the study not only of European and other art music but also of all folk and non-Western music. Learn about the history and scope of musicology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Musicology (from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια -logia, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science .
Mar 19, 2015 · Tecumseh Fitch [ 59] proposes four principles as prerequisites for a future discipline of ‘bio-musicology’, a term coined by Nils L. Wallin [ 1] to encompass several branches of music psychology and musicology, but that is used here to refer to the biological study of musicality in all its forms.
- Henkjan Honing, Carel ten Cate, Isabelle Peretz, Sandra E. Trehub
- 2015
Mar 19, 2015 · As a species-typical trait of Homo sapiens, musicality represents a cognitively complex and biologically grounded capacity worthy of intensive empirical investigation. Four principles are suggested here as prerequisites for a successful future discipline of bio-musicology.
‘Bio-musicology’ is the biological study of musicality in all its forms. Human ‘musicality’ refers to the set of capacities and proclivities that allows our species to generate...
