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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.
May 28, 2013 · Synthetic rather than polemic, a historically informed voice from the center of the field of ethnomusicology identifies key issues in the research and analysis of music. These include the concept of music and the general and particular with regard to musical styles, values, and transformation.
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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.
Feb 20, 2012 · The extent to which musicology has changed over the last 15 years is made clear by the fact that Stock's (1997a) characterisation of the differences between musicology and ethnomusicology now seems surprisingly (and pleasingly) dated if one looks at current work in the field.
- Laudan Nooshin
- 2011
This definition does not distinguish ethnomusicology from other forms of musicology, such as the study of European art music. However, it does set up a dichotomy between ethnomusicological study, which results in reports in the spoken and written word, and other forms of “studying music,” such as taking music lessons and learning to play ...
Nov 29, 2017 · Ethnomusicology is most frequently defined as the study of music in its relationship to the rest of human culture, and as the study of the musics of the world from a comparative perspective. But it has also been defined many other ways, including “the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts ...
Related to divisions between cognitivist formalism and phenomenological functionalism, the music and language literature also represents a wide range of opinions on the nature and accessibility of musical meaning. The en-trenched theoretical division between absolutist and referentialist positions is a frequently recurring theme (67, 90, 93 ...
