musicology
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Definition(s):
- (n) the scholarly and scientific study of music
Usage(s):
- This fall, when the university's administrators tried to introduce a program in musicology and performing arts, the campus erupted in protest.
- 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.
- 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.
Quotes
- "Not biography, not musicology," Coles writes, "but a kind of ethnography."on Oct 29, 2003 By: Robert Coles Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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