musicologistn.
/ˌmjuːzᵻˈkɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌmjuzəˈkɑlədʒəst/ An expert in or student of musicology.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun]
Mus. Doc.1765
Mus.D.1771
musicologist1893
bac1906
1893–4 Proc. Musical Assoc. (20th Sess.) 47 The temperament of the Indian scale has from time to time attracted considerable attention amongst acousticians and musicologists.
1915 W. S. Pratt in Music Q. 1 1 Several handy derivatives, such as ‘musicologist’..‘musicological’, and the like.
1927 Observer 20 Feb. 18/2 The widest co-operation has..been secured from French, Spanish, German, and other foreign musicologists.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 474/1 The men who undertook to ‘discover Bach’..were musicologists in the true sense of the word.
1973 Oxf. Mag. 1 June 4/1 The members of the Faculty of Music are for the most part primarily musicologists.
1998 Independent 10 Nov. i. 17/8 A musicologist explained that music had always served two purposes: to lift the spirit and to make the feet tap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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