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"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
This is a list of musicology topics. Musicology is the scholarly study of music. A person who studies music is a musicologist. The word is used in narrow, intermediate and broad senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture.
In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music (e.g., the history of Nigerian music or the history of rock); in practice, these research topics are often categorized as part of ethnomusicology or cultural studies, whether or not they are ethnographically based.
This category covers two topics: History of music is the chronological description of music. ... Pages in category "Music history"
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North
Musicology topics; Opera librettists; Ornaments; Performances of French grand operas at the Paris Opéra; Period instruments; Pipe organ stops; Pitch intervals; Principal conductors by orchestra; List of program music; Quarter tone pieces; Styles of music: A–F; Styles of music: G–M; Styles of music: N–R; Styles of music: S–Z; Symphony ...
Detailed history of Western classical music; Early music; Medieval: c. 500–1400 • Ars antiqua: c. 1170–1310 • Ars nova: ... Portal: Classical music/Topics.
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by its acronym RILM, is a nonprofit organization that offers digital collections and advanced tools for locating research on all topics related to music. [1]