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- Particularly in relation to performance of music and dance, the three key differences that distinguish much of the canon of artistic research in music from ethnomusicology are: (1) the lack of a central canon of repertoire in ethnomusicology as compared to other musicological disciplines who share a more or less accepted (or even continually negotiated) canon of works against which the novelty and originality of new music can be compared; (2) the extreme relativism inherent in the training and...
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Apr 25, 2021 · While musicology makes use of preexisting sources such as music scores, literary, archaeological and iconographical materials, ethnomusicology collects data through fieldwork. In addition, ethnomusicologists often are used to derive other important data by taking an active role into the musical traditions they analyze.
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
Rebecca Bodenheimer. Updated on December 20, 2019. Ethnomusicology is the study of music within the context of its larger culture, though there are various definitions for the field. Some define it as the study of why and how humans make music. Others describe it as the anthropology of music.
Gini Gorlinski, associate editor of music and dance of Encyclopædia Britannica, discussing ethnomusicology. ethnomusicology, field of scholarship that encompasses the study of all world musics from various perspectives. It is defined either as the comparative study of musical systems and cultures or as the anthropological study of music.
Aug 25, 2021 · Particularly in relation to performance of music and dance, the three key differences that distinguish much of the canon of artistic research in music from ethnomusicology are: (1) the lack of a central canon of repertoire in ethnomusicology as compared to other musicological disciplines who share a more or less accepted (or even continually ...
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists examine music as a social process in order to understand what music is and what it means to its practitioners and audiences. Ethnomusicology is highly interdisciplinary.
Jul 16, 2023 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.
