musicology Meaning of "musicology"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the scholarly and scientific study of music

Usage(s):

  1. This fall, when the university's administrators tried to introduce a program in musicology and performing arts, the campus erupted in protest.
  2. 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.
  3. After earning a master's degree in musicology from Boston College, he signed up as a stagehand with the touring Metropolitan Opera from 1949 to 1952.

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