Musicology

Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science.

study of the theoretical aspects of music and its notation

history of human creation of music

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university in Salzburg, Austria

serious music, as opposed to popular or folk music; meta-genre covering global classical music developments

Organology (; ) is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classification. There is a degree of overlap between organology, ethnomusicology (being subsets of musicology) and the branch of the science of acoustics devoted to musical instruments.

branch of both psychology and musicology

music in the tradition of the Byzantine Empire

music cataloging organization

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musical notation system used for European vocal polyphonic music

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women in music in different genres, eras, and all over the world

'''''' () is a German term, meaning "utility music", for music that exists not only for its own sake, but which was composed for some specific, identifiable purpose. This purpose can be a particular historical event, like a political rally or a military ceremony, or it can be more general, as with music written to accompany dance, or music written for amateurs or students to perform.

musical form

organization of music libraries that promotes international cooperation and music bibliography

__NOTOC__ Śārṅgadeva (1175–1247), also spelled Sharngadeva or Sarnga Deva, was a 13th-century Indian musicologist who authored Sangita Ratnakara – a Sanskrit text on music and drama. It is considered to be the authoritative treatise on Indian classical music by both the Hindustani and Carnatic music traditions.

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book by Hector Berlioz

branch of history relating to music

learned society for musicology in Basel, Switzerland

American music research organization

Belgian and French music magazine

scientific study of brain processes related to music

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book by Nicolas Slonimsky

aspect of musical history

Ukrainian music organization

theory of music in 16th–17th Century Germany, developing "figures" by analogy with rhetoric

subset of musicology since the 1980s

music played at loud volume

music promoting white supremacy

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