0 a person who studies musicology (= the history, theory, and science of music): --
A distinguished musicologist, she has applied academic discipline to her research.
Arvinda is a respected musicologist.
And why do musicologists of the music of notes continue to avoid the musicology of the music of sounds?
Or perhaps there was a feeling that this music 'could look after itself', that it is the common property of all musicologists.
One feature that does emerge from the work of musicologists is the role of music (and more broadly sound) in generating civic and urban identity.
The musicologist must also reconstruct the source's history, situating and precisely describing it.
This veritable ' skeleton in the closet' continues to trouble both ars nova aesthetics and the musicologists who concern themselves with this repertory.
Next, the musicologist must make choices based on the data found, choices whose pertinence must be justified.
To allow a musicologist to work efficiently with the mass of provided data, the tool itself must be capable of generating metadata: comments, markers, indexes.
More generally, a great number of descriptors of different levels must be available simultaneously to allow the musicologist to interpret individual and collective signification.
