musicologicaladj.
/ˌmjuːzᵻkəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈˌmjuzəkəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Of or relating to musicology.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [adjective]
musicological1915
1915 W. S. Pratt in Music Q. 1 1 Several handy derivatives, such as ‘musicologist’..‘musicological’, and the like.
1941 G. Haydon Introd. Musicol. i. 1 By no means everything written about music qualifies as musicological literature, but only that which exhibits an acceptable quality of scholarship.
1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 95 Musicological analyses of the blues have scarcely been undertaken to date.
1994 N. Baker Fermata xi. 161 He had a masterwork of twentieth-century music in his briefcase,..awakened from its dodecaphonic slumber by his profound scholarship and delicate musicological instinct.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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