The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

However, musicologist Thomas J. Mathiesen comments that it is no longer believed to be authentic ..

However, the opening of Harriet Cohen's private papers and the research into them by scholars, such as the Norwegian musicologist Thomas Elnaes, indicates that such a link is at best speculative.

A musical phrase accompanying a single line of Terence's play Hecyra was copied in the 18th century by Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli from a 10th century manuscript ; however, musicologist Thomas J. Mathiesen comments that it is no longer believed to be authentic.

For example, the musicologist Rudolf Steglich has suggested that Handel used the device of the " ascending fourth " as a unifying motif ; this device most noticeably occurs in the first two notes of " I know that my Redeemer liveth " and on numerous other occasions.

While musicologist Philip Gossett notes that between 1962 and 1990 " some seventy opera houses have included the work in one or more seasons ", it was not until the Met's 1990 revival after almost 100 years that a production based on a new critical edition was mounted.

With regard to the controversy Lennon initiated by citing Beethoven's " Moonlight Sonata " as an inspiration, musicologist Walter Everett notes that " both arpeggiate triads and seventh chords in C # minor in the baritone range of a keyboard instrument at a slow tempo, move through the submediant to ♭ II and approach vii dim 7 / IV via a common tone.

Writing about LeBaron's 1989 Telluris Theoria Sacra ( for flute / piccolo, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and piano ), musicologist Susan McClary notes that the work "... points to LeBaron's more pervasive interest in music's ability to mold temporality, immersing the listener in a sound world in which time bends, stands still, dances, or conforms to the mechanical measure of the clock " ( Lochhead 2007 ).

According to the musicologist Curt Sachs Gusikov performed in garden concerts, variety shows, and as a novelty at symphony concerts.

In a 2008 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, prominent musicologist Joseph Horowitz asserts that African-American spirituals were a major influence on the ninth symphony, quoting Dvořák from an 1893 interview in the New York Herald as saying, " In the negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

As musicologist Hugh Macdonald wrote of Liszt's works in this genre, the intent was " to display the traditional logic of symphonic thought ;" that is, to display a comparable complexity in the interplay of musical themes and tonal ' landscape ' to those of the Romantic symphony.

* Knud Jeppesen ( 1892 – 1974 ), a composer and internationally recognised musicologist, who did much to promote Nielsen's music outside Denmark.

Bárdos ' work as a musicologist included major studies of Gregorian melody, modal and Romantic harmony, and the analysis of works by Liszt, Bartók and Kodály.

A person who studies music is a musicologist.

Mickey Hart ( born Michael Steven Hartman ; September 11, 1943 ) is an American percussionist and musicologist.

Composer and musicologist Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac is considered one of the most important founders of modern Serbian music.

This theory is supported by Reto Bezzola, Peter Dronke, and musicologist J. Chailley.

Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: " As a musical translator of words and all that can be expressed in words, of psychological states, and even physical movement, he is unsurpassed ; as an absolute musician he was hopelessly limited, with remarkably little ability to construct pure music or even a purely musical texture.

The musicologist Hugh Macdonald argues that Bizet's best orchestral music is found in the suites that he derived respectively from the piano work Jeux d ' enfants and the incidental music for L ' Arlésienne.

Of the musical themes suggested as the Enigma, one of the most frequently proposed is the Scottish song " Auld Lang Syne ", which has been favoured by Elgar's friend Richard Powell ( husband of Dorabella ), the musicologist Roger Fiske, and the writer Eric Sams.

* Composer & musicologist Kyle Gann's Nancarrow Page Gann, author of " The Music of Conlon Nancarrow ", is one of the current authorities on the composer's work.

According to the musicologist Donald Burrows, much of the text is so allusive as to be largely incomprehensible to those ignorant of the biblical accounts.

Handel's music for Messiah is distinguished from most of his other oratorios by an orchestral restraint — a quality which the musicologist Percy M. Young observes was not adopted by Mozart and other later arrangers of the music.

Although Messiah is not in any particular key, Handel's tonal scheme has been summarised by the musicologist Anthony Hicks as " an aspiration towards D major ", the key musically associated with light and glory.

These occasions were in the face of a general indifference to the music ; writing in the centenary year, the musicologist Deryck Cooke opined that at that time, " to declare oneself a confirmed Delian is hardly less self-defamatory than to admit to being an addict of cocaine and marihuana ".

Nonetheless, as the Spanish musicologist José L. Pérez de Arteaga points out ( Pérez de Arteaga, José L .: Mahler, Barcelona, Salvat, 1987, p. 148 ), this movement is really " a most morbid and sarcastic mockery of the Viennese waltz ".

The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is the highpoint of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history ( partly because it is one of the first ).

His fondness for " Humpty Dumptyish " language may irritate at times, but overall Tovey's achievement is impressive: very few commentators have been able to communicate clearly with a non-specialist readership at the same time as revealing so much that is of interest to the trained musician and musicologist.

The philosophical tradition now referred to as the " Frankfurt School " is perhaps particularly associated with Max Horkheimer ( philosopher, sociologist and social psychologist ), who took over as the institute's director in 1930 and recruited many of the school's most talented theorists, including Theodor W. Adorno ( philosopher, sociologist, musicologist ), Erich Fromm ( psychoanalyst ), and Herbert Marcuse ( philosopher ).

Bhutanese musicians include: Jigme Drukpa, who is also a leading Bhutanese musicologist.

The notion of art music is a frequent and well defined musicological distinction, e. g., referred to by musicologist Philip Tagg as one of an " axiomatic triangle consisting of ' folk ', ' art ' and ' popular ' musics.

The French musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez contends that ‘ the narrative, strictly speaking, is not in the music, but in the plot imagined and constructed by the listeners ’.

Tahiti came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of himene tarava, recorded by French musicologist Pascal Nabet-Meyer ( recorded without the use of guttural utterances ).

Perhaps the first such musicologist to use the word Gebrauchsmusik was Paul Nettl, writing in 1921 (‘ Beiträge zur Geschichte der Tanzmusik im 17.

1990: 16 ), who, as a musicologist, considered the theoretical study of communication irrelevant to his application of semiotics.

* Nicholas Cook ( born 1950 ), musicologist

* Enrique Máximo García ( 1954 – 2008 ), musicologist, chemist, investigator and historian

* Howard Goodall ( born 1958 ), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter

* Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1878-1940 ), Russian musicologist and son of Nikolai

* William Charles Smith ( 1881 – 1971 ), English musicologist

It has been argued by a musicologist, Ursula Kirkendale that the composition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Das Musikalische Opfer ( The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 ), was closely connected with the Institutio Oratoria.

* Henry-Louis de La Grange ( born 1924 ), French musicologist

* Roger Lee Hall ( born 1942 ), composer and musicologist.

* May 9 – Leon Stein ( 91 ), composer, conductor and musicologist ( born September 18, 1910 )

Featured participants included Nuria Schoenberg ( daughter of Arnold Schoenberg and widow of Luigi Nono ), musicologist James Harrison, the opera conductor Roberto Abbado, violinist Ivry Gitlis, composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Lorenzo Ferrero, and Andrea Liberovici, poet Edoardo Sanguineti, popular singer-songwriters Teresa De Sio, Gianna Nannini, and Gino Paoli, rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D ' Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel, and administrators Anna Cammarano ( director of classical music at RAI Trade ), Gennaro di Benedetto ( superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ), and Joseph Hussek ( director of the artistic programme at the Salzburg Festival ).

Johann Nikolaus Forkel ( 22 February 1749 in Meeder, near Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – 20 March 1818 in Göttingen, Hanover ), was a German musician, musicologist and music theorist.

* Otto Erich Deutsch ( 1883 – 1967 ), musicologist

* Sergio Berlioz ( born 1963 ), Mexican composer and musicologist

* Alan Blyth ( 1929 – 2007 ), English musicologist

* Maynard Solomon ( born 1930 ), American music producer and musicologist

* Thurston Dart ( 1921-1971 ), British musicologist