Musicology
Videos
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociolo
Music historian Jack Stewart lectures at a conference.
Portrait of John Sullivan Dwight
Portrait of Ludwig Ritter von Köchel
Portrait of Ludwig Nohl
Music theory
Videos
Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theor
Musicology
…Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthetics, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology of musical instruments (organology), and the musical implications of physiology…
Explanation of the diapason in a 10th-century manuscript of Musica enchiriadis
Barbershop quartets, such as this US Navy group, sing 4-part pieces, made up of a melody line (normally the second-highest voice, called the "lead") and 3 harmony parts.
Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar with noiseless pickups. Below is the E9 chord audio:
A violinist performing