Definitions
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- noun One who studies
musicology
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- noun a student of musicology
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Examples
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(When I later call my musicologist friend to request that he dig out Janki's music, he is stunned when I tell him why).
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Surfing the edges of this story, I learned a nice bit of trivia: the first article to make it through the peer-review process of Nupedia, Wikipedia's expert-only ancestor, was musicologist Christoph Hust's entry for "Atonality."
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This German musicologist, Dr. Alexander Berg, found me while I was out running around the world, and he said, Listen, I have an idea for you to consider.
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This German musicologist, Dr. Alexander Berg, found me while I was out running around the world, and he said, Listen, I have an idea for you to consider.
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SV: Well, she writes songs, but her instincts are more like a musicologist.
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Surfing the edges of this story, I learned a nice bit of trivia: the first article to make it through the peer-review process of Nupedia, Wikipedia's expert-only ancestor, was musicologist Christoph Hust's entry for "Atonality."
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The musicologist Ludwig von Köchel systematized, cataloged and published the musical output of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—he's the "K" that denotes a particular Mozart composition.
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But I know this guy Ric Menck, who plays drums with me laughs and he is a musicologist.
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FreedmanArt/Frank Stella /ARS 'K. 51' 2008 by Frank Stella Just as Kandinsky's painting was provoked by his experience of Moscow, Mr. Stella's wall-hung "Scarlatti K Series" was triggered by the harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and the writings of the U.S. 20th-century harpsichord virtuoso and musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick, who made the sonatas widely known.
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But I know this guy Ric Menck, who plays drums with me laughs and he is a musicologist.
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