Musicology

:For the album by Prince, see Musicology (album).

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Prince - Musicology (album)

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Musicology "is 'the scientific study of music'" (Greek: musike = music and logos = science).

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Music - Greek

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:the whole body of systematized knowledge about music which results from the application of a scientific method of investigation or research, or of philosophical speculation and rational systematization to the facts, the processes and the development of musical art, and to the relation of man in general...to that art (Harvard Dictionary of Music).

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As "it 'must include every conceivable discussion of musical topics'," musicologists may study quite a wide range of subjects. Some, for instance, may specialise in English Tudor church music, others in the history of musical notation and others in the development of the flute.

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Musicologists - English - Tudor - Musical notation - Flute

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