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Musicology
Musicology (Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason") is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture. In the intermediate sense, it includes all relevant...
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Music history
The field of music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of...
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is a branch of musicology defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts."
Coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos (nation) and μουσική mousike (music), it is...
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New musicology
The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of musicology with increased focus upon the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music, with influences from feminism, gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, postcolonial...
