Musicology

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Music is worldwide and is listened to everyday. It is very important in the world but there are many things to learn about, such as where it came from, how it produces sounds, and how it is written. All these questions can be answered with one specific scientific study, musicology. **Musicology**, according to Dictionary.COM, is the scholarly or scientific study of music, such as historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound. If you want the literal term it means, "words of music." There are three levels of Musicology and they are narrow, intermediate, and broad. The narrow type is music studied in the Western culture. The intermediate type is all types of music in different cultures and different musical forms, traditions, and genres. The broad type is the type of music all over the world, both past and present.=====

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This study was not used until the 18 century and there was few information publish on the subject. Musicology was founded by Johann Nicolaus Forkel. In the 19 century, the general interest increased, but not on the music of the time. They developed an interest for the music of the past. Francios Josheph Fetis and August Wilhelm Ambros were two of the first people to publish reviews on the Western culture music and their reviews were very important. Today, the location of the study of music is mainly found in universities.=====

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There are a total of six sub-catagories of Musicology. They are Historical Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, Music Psychology, Music Cognition, and Music Notation. (Definitions from Dictionary.COM)=====

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 * Historical Musicology**, also called Music History, studies the compostion, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. This category is mainly studied about the music in Western Europe. To study historical music, it requires direct involvment with music. It has a great range of activities about going into depth about the history of composers, performers, musical institutions, and other cultural things. All of these things have influenced the development of music.=====

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 * Ethnomusicology**, formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context. It is often considered the anthropology of music. In the 19 centrury, it's origins were Europe and the U.S., with the work of Carl Stumpf, Erich M. von Hornbostle, Franz Boas, and many others. Also, in the 19 century, the development of recording technologies widened. About 1950, the word ethnomusicology, was introduced.=====

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 * Music Theory** is the study that describes the elements of music and includes the development and application of methods for composing and for analyzing music through both notation and, on occasion, musical sound itself. The sub-categories of this sub-category are sound, pitch, rhythm, melody, harmony, consonance, dissonance, texture, notation, anaylsis, ear training, and four-part writing.=====

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 * Music Psychology** applies the content and methods of all subdisciplines of psychology (perception, cognition, motivation, personality, and so on) to all aspects of musical dehavior and experience (performance, listening, and composition). Basically, music psychology studies why humans spend so much time, effort, and money on activities involving music. This is done by combining musicology with psycology.=====

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 * Music Cognition** is the study of music as information, from the viewpoint of cognitive science (the study of the nature of intellegence). It also studies the process of performing, imporvising, and composing. Basically, it attemps to comprehend the psycological and physiological appliences that allow musical experience to take place.=====

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 * Music Notation** is any system which is represented, by ear, the apprehend music, through the use of written symbols. There are two basic ways to notating music and they are tablature and symbolic notation. The Western notation system combindes rythmic notation with pitch notation and this gives a single symbol pitch and duration.=====

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In high school, choir, orchestra, music theory, and music classes are all suggested. Also, some colleges specialize or have special departments for musicology. Those colleges include: Berklee, Oberlin, Bowling Green State University, Brown, and Cornell.To learn more about these colleges and universities check out their websites down below.=====
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To have a job requiring musicology study, schooling is required. For this career, a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA), BMus degree, a doctorate, or a masters, is required to graduate and to take certain jobs.=====

Here are 3 charts of the salary of a musician/singer, two of many jobs that have to do with music.




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Many musicologists have discovered long lost works from the past by well-known composers. They oftern look over a composer's manuscript and sketches to find information about them. By doing this, they determine if the work is a real creation of a composer or not and correct any errors that are on the printed versions. Also, by studing manuscripts and miniature art, musicologists discovered that more than 60 different string, wind, and precussion instruments existed in Azerbaijan.=====

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On December 15, 1993, a discovery had been made. Six of Franz Joshep Haydn's sonatas were found. Haydn had written them in the late 1760s to the early 1770s. Musicologist Robbins Landon was the one who had made the discovery. The sonatas seemed to have been copies made in Italy in 1805. This was considered to be one of the greatest discoveries in musicology of the century.=====

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Lead singer Bono, bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. and guitarist The Edge of U2 perform on "Good Morning America" at Fordham University on March 6, 2009.
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The buzz: Kelly Clarkson fought for creative control on 2007's "My December" - an album that was gloomier, less accessible and more personal than its predecessors.
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Music is apart of everyone's life. It is heard everyday, at school, work, or even in the grocery store. It is like a second nature. It helps children learn, such as the abc song, and it helps people in therapy. By studing musicology, it is easier to understand where music came from, how it produces sounds, and how it is written. Music is used for many things, and without it, everyone's life would not be the same.=====

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