0 a person who studies musicology (= the history, theory, and science of music):
Arvinda is a respected musicologist.
A distinguished musicologist, she has applied academic discipline to her research.
You don't have to be a musicologist to hear a beautiful note.
Some musicologists have argued that it’s impossible to trace music styles with any specificity.
Most of these musicologists write primarily within the area of acoustic music.
Also, much of this research has been conducted by musicologists, many of whom specialise in past eras of music history.
Musical notation is kept to a minimum, theoretical concepts are explained in simple terms, and prominent musicologists are given brief introductions.
If music in this novel were a completely literary construct, musicologists might wonder why it warranted their attention and expertise.
Some musicologists have argued for a relationship between the thirty-four chords and later musical statements in the opera, statements tied to both plot and libretto.
It so happens that my interests as a musicologist coincide with those composers, those moments, those reasons.
