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Apr 25, 2021 · One of the main differences between musicology and ethnomusicology can be found in the way in which data are collected. 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 ...
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. If anthropology is the study of human behavior, ethnomusicology is the study of the music humans make.
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
v. t. e. 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. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and ...
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. Although the field had antecedents in the 18th and early 19th centuries, it began to gather energy with the ...
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The writings of John Blacking, Charles Keil, Bruno Nettl, Tim Rice, and the Seegers and the Lomaxes are among those scholars whose work is relevant to music education scholarship, and issues of mutual interest are emerging: cross-cultural perspectives of music cognition, the mind-body and music-dance dualities, children's music culture, the ...
The realms of ethnomusicology pertinent to music teaching and learning, particularly within institutions, are noted as well, along with the interfaces of ethnomusicologists with music educators. The collaborations among them illustrate the means by which they have jointly affected change in the lives of children, youth, and other learners whose ...
