musicology

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English music

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English musicology

From music + -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːzɪˈkɒlədʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

musicology (usually uncountable, plural musicologies)

1. (music) The scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, music theory, or the physical nature of sound.

Derived terms

• choreomusicology
• ecomusicology
• ethnomusicology
• ludomusicology
• musicological
• musicologist
• zoomusicology

Translations

study of music

• Albanian: muzikologji (sq) f
• Arabic: علم الموسيقى m (ʕilm al-mūsīqā)
• Armenian: երաժշտագիտություն (hy) (eražštagitutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: musiqişünaslıq
• Bulgarian: музикология f (muzikologija)
• Burmese: ဂီတပညာ (my) (gita.pa.nya), ဂီတဗေဒ (gita.beda.)
• Catalan: musicologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音樂學 / 音乐学 (zh) (yīnyuèxué)

• Czech: muzikologie (cs) f
• Danish: musikvidenskab c
• Dutch: musicologie (nl) f, muziekwetenschap (nl) f
• Esperanto: muzikologio
• Estonian: muusikateadus (et)
• Finnish: musiikkitiede (fi), musikologia
• French: musicologie (fr) f
• Georgian: მუსიკათმცოდნეობა (musiḳatmcodneoba)
• German: Musikwissenschaft (de) f
• Greek: μουσικολογία (el) f (mousikología)
• Hebrew: מוזיקולוגיה (he) f (muzikológya)
• Hungarian: zenetudomány (hu)
• Icelandic: tónlistarfræði
• Indonesian: musikologi (id)
• Italian: musicologia (it) f
• Japanese: 音楽学 (ja) (おんがくがく, ongakugaku)
• Kazakh: сазтану (saztanu), музыкатану (muzykatanu)
• Korean: 음악학(音樂學) (eumakhak)
• Latvian: muzikoloģija f
• Lithuanian: muzikologija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: musikkvitenskap m

  Nynorsk: musikkvitskap m

• Persian: موسیقی‌شناسی (fa) (musiqi-šenâsi)
• Polish: muzykologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: musicologia (pt) f
• Romanian: muzicologie (ro) f
• Russian: музыкове́дение (ru) n (muzykovédenije), музыкозна́ние (ru) n (muzykoznánije)
• Scots: muisicologie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: музикологија f

  Latin: muzikologija (sh) f

• Slovak: muzikológia (sk) f
• Slovene: muzikologija (sl) f
• Spanish: musicología (es) f
• Swedish: musikvetenskap c
• Tagalog: musikolohiya
• Turkish: müzikoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: музикозна́вство n (muzykoznávstvo)
• Uzbek: musiqashunoslik (uz)
• Vietnamese: âm nhạc học (音樂學)
• Welsh: cerddoleg f
• Yiddish: מוזיקאָלאָגיע f (muzikologye)

See also

• musicology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia