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musicology

scientific discipline whose content is the practical and theoretical study of music
Intangible academic_discipline Q164204
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Summary

musicology is an academic discipline[1]. musicology draws 2,237 Wikipedia views per month (academic discipline category, ranking #126 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic major[3]
  • Subclass of: musicking[4], Geisteswissenschaften[5], culturology[6]
  • Part of: Art, Music, Theatre and Media Studies[7]
  • Commons category: Musicology[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Musicology[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[10]
  • Is the study of: music[11], musical style[12], music genre[13]
  • Has part(s) of the class: etnomusicology[14], systematic musicology[15], music history[16], cognitive musicology[17], music education[18], music therapy[19], ecomusicology[20]
  • Practiced by: musicologist[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

musicology has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] musicology is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi American Institute of Musicology Anton Rubinstein Béla Bartók Boris Asafyev César Cui etnomusicology Giuseppe Tartini Hugo Riemann Hugo Wolf Institut de Recherche en Musicologie Institut Espanyol de Musicologia Martin Polák Mauricio Kagel music musical archival science music education music librarianship music theory Nikita Braguinski Theodor W. Adorno Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales Universität des Saarlandes Institut für Musikwissenschaft Uzeyir Hajibeyov Vincent d'Indy Vít Baisa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . um.edu.mt. um.edu.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → musicology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: musicology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955381|musicology (#289955381)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4A77Xz
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003493-muzikologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003493-muzikologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → musicologist
    Instance of → academic discipline, academic major
    Part of → Art, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
    Image last checked license → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007555764505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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