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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MusicologyMusicology - Wikipedia

    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. Musicology is traditionally divided into ...

  2. New musicology. New musicology is a wide body of musicology since the 1980s with a focus upon the cultural study, aesthetics, criticism, and hermeneutics of music. It began in part a reaction against the traditional positivist musicology—focused on primary research —of the early 20th century and postwar era.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Music_theoryMusic theory - Wikipedia

    In modern academia, music theory is a subfield of musicology, the wider study of musical cultures and history. Music theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships. In addition, there is also a body of theory concerning practical aspects ...

  4. musicology, the scholarly and scientific study of music. The German term Musikwissenschaft (“science of music”) was first employed by F. Chrysander in 1863 in the preface to his Jahrbücher für musikalische Wissenschaft (“Yearbook for Musical Knowledge”), in which he argued that musicology should be accepted as a science and that ...

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  5. The word musicology literally means "the study of music," encompassing all aspects of music in all cultures and all historical periods. In practice, musicology includes a wide variety of methods of studying music as a scholarly endeavor; although the study of music performance is an important facet of musicology, music performance itself is a different area of study.

  6. Someone who studies musicology is a Musicologist. Musicologists study all kinds of music. They study the history of music and learn about all the composers and how they developed their ideas and learned from one another. They can do this by studying music scores, or by looking for historical documents which tell us about musicians from the past.

  7. Music theory. Theory of Music is all about trying to understand how existing music works and how new music could or should be organized. Someone who makes a special study of music theory is a music theorist. People who make their own music are composers. People who play or sing music are “performers”. It is important for both composers and ...

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