Musicology

[Sarah]

The study of the history of music, but having no relationship to music itself. It is usually studied at [the graduate] level by inept performers and anal-retentive, sexually-repressed, multi-lingual, shutins. It is an equivalent discipline to [Art History], except for the fact that you will never see a [musicology] show on PBS, nor will you ever see a musicologist interviewed on television. [Musicology] is the study of boring, obscure facts tangentially related to the lives and works of (mostly unknown) composers in the Western European high-cultural tradition.

[Hina Muqadas]

Something that [Korean] people made up so that they [could do] something in music that doesnt require [creativity].

[Oralee]

A study or rough guess-timate of how music was played before the time of any public record. [Musicians] and composers alike study musicology for ideas on performance practice and to learn about their ancestors. Ways musicology is studied include: [mysticism], [speculation], and estimation. These speculations are then used to influence musical performances today. (See Examples)