Musicology
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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.
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