musicologist

Noun

Meaning

a student of musicology

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

composer musician scorer arranger harmonizer librettist balladeer contrapuntist orchestrator harmonist madrigalist melodist hymnist hymnologist hymnographer

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Hypernyms

bookman scholar student scholarly person

Examples

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. Thomas Beecham

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. Nina Blackwood

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. Wendy Carlos

According to the Ecuadorian musicologist Segundo Luis Moreno, Sanjuanito was danced by indigenous people during San Juan Bautista's birthday. Source: Internet

According to the Ecuadorian musicologist Segundo Luis Moreno, Sanjuanito was danced by Amerindian people during San Juan Bautista's birthday. Source: Internet

As musicologist Roger Parker notes, the composer "intervened on several important points, insisting for example that the role of Ernani be sung by a tenor (rather than by a contralto as had originally been planned). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

musicologic musicological musicologically musicology musicomania musicomechanical