musicology
- n the scholarly and scientific study of music
- In 33 Variations, Jane Fonda (making her first appearance on Broadway in 46 years) plays a musicology professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease who tries to solve a musical .
- Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University.
- This fall, when the university's administrators tried to introduce a program in musicology and performing arts, the campus erupted in protest.