Musicology

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

Other theories and disciplines

The new musicology

The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of work produced by many musicologists who consider themselves neither new nor New. Often based on the work of Theodor Adorno and feminist, gender studies, or postcolonial hypotheses, the New Musicology is the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music. As Susan McClary says, "musicology fastidiously declares issues of musical signification off-limits to those engaged in legitimate scholarship."

Related Topics:
New Musicology - Theodor Adorno - Feminist - Gender studies - Postcolonial - Cultural study - Susan McClary

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Music Cognition

Music cognition is the study of the perception and performance of music from the viewpoint of cognitive science. The discipline shares the interdisciplinary nature of fields such as cognitive linguistics.

Related Topics:
Music cognition - Cognitive linguistics

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Biomusicology and zoomusicology

Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view. Zoomusicology is a field of musicology and zoology or more specifically, zoosemiotics. Zoomusicology is the study of the music of animals, or rather the musical aspects of sound or communication produced and received by animals.

Related Topics:
Zoomusicology - Musicology - Zoology - Zoosemiotics - Music - Animal - Musical aspect - Sound - Communication

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