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musicology|mjuːzɪˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. F. musicologie or f. music n. + -ology.]
The systematic study of music as opposed to the art of composition and performance; esp. academic research in music.
1909M. S. Logan (title) Musicology. 1915W. S. Pratt in Musical Quarterly I. 3 ‘Musicology’, if it is to rank with other comprehensive sciences, must include every conceivable scientific discussion of musical topics. 1919Proc. Mus. Assoc. 1918–19 106 The foundations of Musicology are the documents, manuscripts or printed music of past times. 1928Music & Lett. Apr. 108 The most valuable piece of musicology is the treatment of the six motets. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnological Theory xiv. 255 Comparative musicology..rose to a new plane with phonographic recordings. 1941G. Haydon Introd. Musicology i. 7 Musicology, following the lead of philosophy, adopts the epistemological concepts of space and time, and divides its subject matter under the two main headings systematic and historical. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 384/1 Only since the turn of the century has musicology been accepted fully and internationally as an independent branch of scholarship. |