Musicology
Musicology from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια -logia, 'domain of study' is the scholarly analysis as well as research-based inspect of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to a humanities, although some music research is scientific in focus psychological, sociological, acoustical, neurological, computational. Some geographers and anthropologists form an interest in musicology so the social sciences also throw an academic interest. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist.
Musicology traditionally is shared in three main branches: historical musicology, systematic musicology and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists mostly explore the history of the western classical music tradition, though the study of music history need not be limited to that. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology particularly field research to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthetics, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology science of musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. Cognitive musicology is the species of phenomena surrounding the cognitive modeling of music. When musicologists carry out research using computers, their research often falls under the field of computational musicology. Music therapy is a specialized form of applied musicology which is sometimes considered more closely affiliated with health fields, and other times regarded as component of musicology proper.