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Musicologists


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    • Music researchers
    • Music scholars
    • Musical researchers
    • Musical scholars
    • Scholars of music
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    • found: Henry Prunières (1886-1942), 2015:t.p. (un musicologue) p. 4 of cover (one of the great French musicologists of the first half of the 20th century) (OCoLC)933228275
    • found: Directory of scholars researching Black music, 1990?(OCoLC)22398718
    • found: Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Nov. 23, 2022(musicology: the study of music as a branch of knowledge or field of research as distinct from composition or performance; musicologist, noun)
    • found: Britannica online, Nov. 23, 2022(musicology, the scholarly and scientific study of music; Musicology covers a wide and heterogeneous area of research and is concerned with the study not only of European and other art music but also of all folk and non-Western music. The scope of musicology may be summarized as covering the study of the history and phenomena of music, including (1) form and notation, (2) the lives of composers and performers, (3) the development of musical instruments, (4) music theory (harmony, melody, rhythm, modes, scales, etc.), and (5) aesthetics, acoustics, and physiology of the voice, ear, and hand)
    • found: Berklee College of Music Career communities website, Nov. 23, 2022:Musicologist (A musicologist is an expert in music as a subject of scholarly research; Musicologists are scholars of music who consider the relationship between music and various subjects including geography, aesthetics, politics, race theory, gender theory, neuropsychology, and more; Ethnomusicologists, for example, study music in its cultural context, while cognitive musicologists examine how music manifests in the brain. Music historians, a large and highly diverse subgroup of musicologists, study music from a historical point of view, conducting archival and biographical work, researching performance practices, and exploring the function of music in societies) - https://www.berklee.edu/careers/roles/musicologist
    • found: Brown, Christine D. The role of computer-mediated communication in the research process of music scholars, 1998:leaf 2 (one group of humanists, music scholars) leaf 10 (Music scholarship is conducted in a number of distinct sub-disciplines. These sub-disciplines have been categorized and defined by Rebman (1993) as: 1) historical musicology, 2) systematic musicology (study of acoustics, psychology of music, music theory and composition, aesthetics of music and sociology of music), 3) music education, 4) ethnomusicology (study of music and culture), and 5) electronic music (study of composition, electronic and computer techniques, music cognition, acoustics, and instrument construction). In this study the term "music scholars" is used to mean scholars who conduct research in the sub-disciplines of music, as defined by Rebman) (OCoLC)1066904875
    • found: Pian, Rulan Chao. Sonq Dynasty musical sources and their interpretation, 2003:p. xi (musical scholars) p. xxix (music scholars) (OCoLC)52553002
    • found: Tibbs, Elizabeth J. Alice Fletcher's historical significance as a musical researcher, 2003.(OCoLC)931802759
    • found: Combined Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Musicological Societies (2007 : Brisbane, Qld.). Musical islands, 2009:p. 70 (a conversation between an Indigenous Australian performer and a non-Indigenous music researcher) (OCoLC)390399508
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    • ML403
    • ML423
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    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2023-04-14: revised
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