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.

Though musicologist Hugh Tracey believed the mbira to be nearing extinction in the 1930s, the instrument has been revived since the 60s and 70s, and has gained an international following through the world music scene.

* Hugh Macdonald ( born 1940 ), English musicologist

The musicologist Nino Pirrotta argues that the Apollo ending was part of the original plan for the work, but was not staged at the premiere because the small room which hosted the event could not contain the theatrical machinery that this ending required.

To fully understand the public success of the Fifth Symphony and how it resonated with audiences, musicologist Genrikh Orlov argues that the music has to be seen as an artistic portrayal of the time in which it originated.

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.

Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret () ( 21 October 18794 November 1957 ) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region.

The musicologist Karl Gustav Fellerer, who examined several such works testifies that Jommelli's piece, though being just " a rigid school work ", could well rank among the best admission pieces now stored in the Bolognese Accademia Filarmonica.

Christoph Wolff ( born May 24, 1940 ) is a German-born musicologist, who is best known for his works on the music, life, and times of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The musicologist Tim Carter calls the opera's characters and their actions " famously problematic ", and its messages " at best ambiguous and at worst perverted ", while Rosand refers to an " extraordinary glorification of lust and ambition ".

) is an English-Canadian musicologist and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt.

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.

Since then she has sustained a multi-dimensional career as an orchestral guest principal, chamber musician, soloist, recording artiste, composer, author, musicologist, teacher, lecturer and entrepreneur.

When the orchestral parts were rediscovered in 1959 by the ballet historian and musicologist Ivor Guest and the conductor John Lanchbery, they were found to be covered with comments ranging from the witty to the crude.

* From mines to music: The venerable valve, by musicologist Edmund A. Bowles

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

* 1603 – King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and musicologist ( d. 1656 )

A person who studies music is a musicologist.

In 1911, help arrived from renowned Russian musicologist and critic Alexander Ossovsky, who wrote a supportive letter to music publisher Boris P. Jurgenson, thus a contract was offered to the composer.

Critic and musicologist Robert Palmer said their endurance and relevance stems from being " rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul music " while " more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone ".

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

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.

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.

Knud Jeppesen ( 15 August 1892 in Copenhagen – 14 June 1974 in Risskov ) was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music.

* Allen Forte ( 1926 -), an American music theorist and musicologist

However we advise DJs to have a lawyer and musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment.

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

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 ".

The musicologist Christopher Palmer was censorious of those who to sought to characterise Bliss's music as " an early tendency to enfant terribilisme yielding very quickly to a compromise with the Establishment and a perpetuating of the Elgar tradition ".

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 ).

Since the analysis of musicologist Charles Seeger in the mid-20th century, American music history has often been described as intimately related to perceptions of race and ancestry.

* September 13-Ephraim Amu, composer, musicologist and music teacher ( died 1995 )

Sir Donald Francis Tovey ( 17 July 187510 July 1940 ) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.

One of his notable pupils was musicologist and music critic Edward Holmes.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 ’.