musicology
You don't have to be a musicologist to hear a beautiful note.
Some musicologists have argued that it’s impossible to trace music styles with any specificity.
Most of these musicologists write primarily within the area of acoustic music.

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Examples of musicologist

musicologist
Also, much of this research has been conducted by musicologists, many of whom specialise in past eras of music history.
Musical notation is kept to a minimum, theoretical concepts are explained in simple terms, and prominent musicologists are given brief introductions.
If music in this novel were a completely literary construct, musicologists might wonder why it warranted their attention and expertise.
Some musicologists have argued for a relationship between the thirty-four chords and later musical statements in the opera, statements tied to both plot and libretto.
It so happens that my interests as a musicologist coincide with those composers, those moments, those reasons.
We must be careful to add all information sources, publications and interviews with the composer, other performers, musicologists, listeners and others.
But composers and musicologists rapidly abandoned these unreliable methods of differentiation.
More generally, a great number of descriptors of different levels must be available simultaneously to allow the musicologist to interpret individual and collective signification.
To allow a musicologist to work efficiently with the mass of provided data, the tool itself must be capable of generating metadata: comments, markers, indexes.
Next, the musicologist must make choices based on the data found, choices whose pertinence must be justified.
This veritable ' skeleton in the closet' continues to trouble both ars nova aesthetics and the musicologists who concern themselves with this repertory.
The musicologist must also reconstruct the source's history, situating and precisely describing it.
One feature that does emerge from the work of musicologists is the role of music (and more broadly sound) in generating civic and urban identity.
Or perhaps there was a feeling that this music 'could look after itself', that it is the common property of all musicologists.
And why do musicologists of the music of notes continue to avoid the musicology of the music of sounds?
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