musicologically

Related to musicologically: musicologist

mu·si·col·o·gy

(myo͞o′zĭ-kŏl′ə-jē)

The historical and scientific study of music.

mu′si·co·log′i·cal (-kə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.

mu′si·co·log′i·cal·ly adv.

mu′si·col′o·gist n.

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musicologically - with respect to musicology

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Part 2 appears at first glance to be the most musicologically driven section.

Music in Goethe's Faust: Goethe's Faust in Music

Very little research explicitly addresses the influence of the Fisk Jubilee Singers on Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori communities from a historical perspective, apart from a few cursory and very brief mentions in Australian sources, such as Ann Curthoys' "Paul Robeson's Visit to Australia and Aboriginal Activism, I960." (2) There are however, selected historical, musicologically oriented texts, such as Louis D.

"[T]HEY SEEMED TO RECOGNISE US AS BRETHREN FROM A FAR DISTANT TRIBE": THE INFLUENCE OF THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS AMONG AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, 1886-1936

The newly discovered source for Czech Lute has been musicologically processed and included as an independent item in the collections of the Regional Museum in Slany.

"My beauty enraptured God"

In the range of their approaches--from the contemporary economic theorization of Jonathan Freedman's "What Maggie Knew" to the musicologically inclined speculation of Eric Lott's "Perfect is Dead"--they may not offer a new and unified methodological horizon for literary studies, but they do help to initiate a necessary conversation.

American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions

Williams's discussions are not for the musicologically fastidious, but they are fascinating: his musical instincts are sound, he writes superbly, and his thinking about these repertoires has been shaped by the fact that he knows many of the musicians of whom he writes.

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

To say that Simon Rattle got the order of the movements wrong and that van Steen was correct, is musicologically and historically absurd.

Putting Morley in order on Mahler's sixth symphony; viewpoint

And, if this was true of literature or painting, it was doubly the case with music: the exclusive realm of the musicologically trained.

Changing tempos: in our series in which historians look back on the changes that have taken place in their field in the 60 years since the founding of History Today, Daniel Snowman takes a personal view of new approaches to the study of the history of culture and the arts--and of music in particular

We break from Hill, however, in noting that musicologically, the opposite of harmony is not dissonance; the opposite of harmony is unison.

Fatherhood harmony: polyphony, movement, and subjectivity

While the exact model parameters learned from some training corpus may not be directly interpretable, the structure of the model, the chosen input features, and the way each additional component changes the model's behavior will provide musicologically valuable insights.