The 4 branches of Musicology

Music >> Education >> Musicology April, 4th 2021.

There are four branches of the study of music.

1. Historical Musicology is the branch of musicology which includes Musical Theory and can be divided in classical music and comparative music.
2. New musicology focuses upon the cultural study, aesthetics, criticism, and hermeneutics of music.
3. Ethno Musicology, also called Comparative Musicology, often from a Eurocentric point of view is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.
4. Systematic Musicology, which is highly interdisciplinary, including the fields of Music Philosophy, Music Psychology, Cognitive Music Psychology, Neuroscience, Robotics and AI.

1.Ethnomusicology-music study in many cultural contexts

2.Music History-study of Western art music.

3.Music Theory-analyze music from a historical perspective as well as develop new techniques for analyzing current trends in music composition.

4.Systematic Musicology-Umbrella term for musicology.