Scientific discipline whose content is the practical and theoretical study of music

Contemplating music : challenges to musicology / Joseph Kerman.

Musicological literature / Emmie te Nijenhuis.

Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain / Maria Semi.

Comparing notes : how we make sense of music / Adam Ockelford.

Just vibrations : the purpose of sounding good / William Cheng.

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Musicology

Works from the collections

Contemplating music : challenges to musicology / Joseph Kerman.

Musicological literature / Emmie te Nijenhuis.

Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain / Maria Semi.

Comparing notes : how we make sense of music / Adam Ockelford.

Just vibrations : the purpose of sounding good / William Cheng.