Musicology
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| - | '''Musicology''' is the scholarly analysis and research-focused study of [[music]]. A person who studies music is a '''musicologist'''. For broad treatments, see the entry on "musicology" in [[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove's dictionary]], the entry on "Musikwissenschaft" in ''Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', and the classic approach of Adler (1885). | + | '''Musicology''' is the scholarly study of [[music]]. Musicology is traditionally considered one of the [[humanities]], although research often intersects with the fields of [[psychology]], [[sociology]], [[acoustics]], [[neurology]], and [[Computational musicology|computer science]]. |
| - | In the broad definition, the parent disciplines of musicology include [[history]]; [[cultural studies]]; [[philosophy]], [[aesthetics]] and [[semiotics]]; [[ethnology]] and [[cultural anthropology]]; [[archeology]] and [[prehistory]]; [[psychology]] and [[sociology]]; [[physiology]] and [[neuroscience]]; [[acoustics]] and [[psychoacoustics]]; and computer/[[information sciences]] and [[mathematics]]. Musicology also has two central, practically oriented subdisciplines with no parent discipline: performance practice and research, and the [[music theory|theory]], [[musical analysis|analysis]] and composition of music. The disciplinary neighbors of musicology address other forms of [[art]], [[performance]], [[ritual]] and [[communication]], including the history and theory of the visual and plastic arts and of architecture; [[linguistics]], [[literature]] and [[theater]]; religion and [[theology]]; and sport. Musical knowledge and know-how are applied in medicine, [[education]] and [[music therapy]], which may be regarded as the parent disciplines of Applied Musicology. | + | Musicology is traditionally divided into three branches: [[music history]], [[systematic musicology]], and [[ethnomusicology]]. Historical musicologists study the history of musical traditions, the origins of works, and the biographies of composers. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly [[field research]]) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes [[music theory]], [[aesthetics]], [[Music education|pedagogy]], musical [[acoustics]], the science and technology of [[Organology|musical instruments]], and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. [[Cognitive musicology]] is the set of phenomena surrounding the [[cognitive model]]ing of music. When musicologists carry out research using computers, their research often falls under the field of [[computational musicology]]. [[Music therapy]] is a specialized form of applied musicology which is sometimes considered more closely affiliated with health fields, and other times regarded as part of musicology proper. |
| - | Traditionally, historical musicology has been considered the largest and most important subdiscipline of musicology. Today, historical musicology is one of several large subdisciplines. Historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and systematic musicology are approximately equal in size - if numbers of active participants at international conferences is any guide. [[Systematic musicology]] includes music acoustics, the science and technology of acoustical musical instruments, physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. [[Cognitive musicology]] is the set of phenomena surrounding the computational modeling of music. | ||
| - | + | ==See also== | |
| - | == See also == | + | *[[Aesthetics of music]] |
| - | *[[Appropriation (music)]] | + | *[[Choreomusicology]] |
| - | * [[Choreomusicology]] | + | *[[Computational musicology]] |
| - | *[[Cognitive Musicology]] | + | |
| *[[List of musicologists]] | *[[List of musicologists]] | ||
| *[[List of musicology topics]] | *[[List of musicology topics]] | ||
| *[[Music and emotion]] | *[[Music and emotion]] | ||
| *[[Music and mathematics]] | *[[Music and mathematics]] | ||
| - | *[[Music education]] | + | *[[Musical analysis]] |
| - | *[[Musical scale]] | + | |
| *[[Musical temperament]] | *[[Musical temperament]] | ||
| - | *[[Music theory]] | ||
| - | *[[Music therapy]] | ||
| *[[Musical tuning]] | *[[Musical tuning]] | ||
| - | *[[New Musicology]] | ||
| - | *[[Organology]] | ||
| *[[Prehistoric music]] | *[[Prehistoric music]] | ||
| - | *[[Psychoacoustics]] | ||
| *[[Psychoanalysis and music]] | *[[Psychoanalysis and music]] | ||
| + | *[[Scale (music)]] | ||
| *[[Set theory (music)]] | *[[Set theory (music)]] | ||
| - | *[[Sociomusicology]] | ||
| *[[Tonality]] | *[[Tonality]] | ||
| *[[World music]] | *[[World music]] | ||
| + | *[[Virtual Library of Musicology]] | ||
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Illustration: Sheet music to "Buffalo Gals" (c. 1840), a traditional song.
Maxim: "writing about music is like dancing about architecture".
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Musicology is the scholarly study of music. Musicology is traditionally considered one of the humanities, although research often intersects with the fields of psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, and computer science.
Musicology is traditionally divided into three branches: music history, systematic musicology, and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists study the history of musical traditions, the origins of works, and the biographies of composers. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthetics, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology of musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. Cognitive musicology is the set of phenomena surrounding the cognitive modeling of music. When musicologists carry out research using computers, their research often falls under the field of computational musicology. Music therapy is a specialized form of applied musicology which is sometimes considered more closely affiliated with health fields, and other times regarded as part of musicology proper.
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See also
- Aesthetics of music
- Choreomusicology
- Computational musicology
- List of musicologists
- List of musicology topics
- Music and emotion
- Music and mathematics
- Musical analysis
- Musical temperament
- Musical tuning
- Prehistoric music
- Psychoanalysis and music
- Scale (music)
- Set theory (music)
- Tonality
- World music
- Virtual Library of Musicology
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