musicologist
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- noun
- /ˌmjuːzɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
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- As a musicologist, she dedicates her time to studying the history and impact of classical music.
- forensic musicologists
- musicologists or musical detectives
- musicologists and music
So this is new phenomenon where musicologists have been able to recreate music from eras that we never could listen to before.
- So this is new phenomenon where musicologists have been able to recreate music from eras that we never could listen to before.
- Can't say enough about Bob, a great musicologist.
Examples
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You see, I'm a musicologist.
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Among these musician-educators were composers, musicologists, philosophers, college professors, and elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
Academic text (2001) -
We are here for the Congress of American Musicologists' Convention.
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In contrast, musicologists and music historians seem to have a harder time of it.
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But contemporary musicologists conclude quite the opposite.
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The major difficulty that prehistoric musicologists face is that it's so easy to make music without leaving a trace.
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Modern musicologists date it much later, to between 1348 and 1644.
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In the mid-20th century, musicologists and folklorists collected Appalachian folk music that might otherwise have been lost.
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Robert Kimball is a respected musicologist who has published numerous articles on American popular music.
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Many musicologists attended the conference to discuss recent discoveries in ancient music traditions.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
musicologist = musicology (semi-transparent) = music + ology + ist
Adding '-ist' to 'musicology' regularly forms a person associated with that field of study.
Etymology
Musicologist joins music and the ending -ologist, which means 'one who studies' and appears in words like biologist or psychologist. So a musicologist is a person who studies music, its history, sounds, and meaning.