List of musicologists
A musicologist is someone who studies music. A historical musicologist studies music from a historical perspective. An ethnomusicologist studies music in its cultural and social contexts. A systematic musicologist asks general questions about music from the perspective of relevant disciplines . Systematic musicologists often identify more strongly with their non-musical discipline than with musicology.
Historical musicologists
- Mário de Andrade
- Carolyn Abbate
- Byron Adams
- Guido Adler
- Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
- August Wilhelm Ambrosjau
- Willi Apel
- Denis Arnold
- Philippe A. Autexier
- Sol Babitz
- Eva Badura-Skoda
- František Bartoš
- Margaret Bent
- Heinrich Besseler
- Yael Bitrán
- Peter Bloom
- Philip Brett
- Reinhold Brinkmann
- Rae Linda Brown
- Howard Mayer Brown
- Charles Faulkner Bryan
- Elmar Budde
- Michael J. Budds
- Manfred Bukofzer
- J. Peter Burkholder
- Dimitrije Bužarovski
- Roberto Carnevale
- Peter Case
- Federico Celestini
- Samuel Charters
- Richard Charteris
- Friedrich Chrysander
- Edward T. Cone
- Charles-Edmond-Henri de Coussemaker
- Ry Cooder
- Ludwig Czaczkes
- Frank D'Accone
- Carl Dahlhaus
- Thurston Dart
- John Daverio
- Dalibor Davidović
- Joshua F. Drake
- S. A. K. Durga
- Alfred Einstein
- Alexander John Ellis
- Séamus Ennis
- Fritz Feldmann
- Robert Fink
- François-Joseph Fétis
- Paul Gambaccini
- Karl Geiringer
- Tula Giannini
- Roger Mathew Grant
- Robert Greenberg
- Donald Jay Grout
- Ursula Günther
- Bartol Gyurgieuvits
- Harry Halbreich
- Roger Lee Hall
- Mickey Hart
- Daniel Heartz
- Seppo Heikinheimo
- Sam Henry
- Willy Hess
- Ernst Hilmar
- H. Wiley Hitchcock
- Hans-Jørgen Holman
- Richard Hoppin
- George Pullen Jackson
- Shruti Jauhari
- Richard Jackson
- Simon P. Keefe
- Thomas Forrest Kelly
- Joseph Kerman
- Otto Kinkeldey
- Jerome Kohl
- Lawrence Kramer
- Franz Krautwurst
- Paul-Gilbert Langevin
- Kendra Preston Leonard
- Friedrich Lippmann
- Robert Lissauer
- Lewis Lockwood
- Alan Lomax
- John Lomax
- Edward Lowinsky
- Friedrich Ludwig
- Ciarán Mac Mathúna
- Eusebius Mandyczewski
- Maria Rika Maniates
- Guy A. Marco
- Joseph de Marliave
- Susan McClary
- R. C. Mehta
- Otto Mayer-Serra
- Lalmani Misra
- Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny
- Pierre Monichon
- Domenico Morgante
- Jean-Jacques Nattiez
- Anthony Newcomb
- Gustav Nottebohm
- Michael Nyman
- Claude V. Palisca
- Dom Joseph Pothier
- André Pirro
- Nino Pirrotta
- Leon B. Plantinga
- Howard Pollack
- Harold Powers
- Michael Praetorius
- N. Ramanathan
- Gustave Reese
- Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov
- Charles Rosen
- Julian Rushton
- Stanley Sadie
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Adolfo Salazar
- Adrienne Simpson
- Elaine Sisman
- Eileen Southern
- Philipp Spitta
- Hedi Stadlen
- Rita Steblin
- Paul Steinitz
- Reinhard Strohm
- Oliver Strunk
- Carl Stumpf
- Edward Tarr
- Richard Taruskin
- Erik W. Tawaststjerna
- Nicholas Temperley
- Jeff Todd Titon
- Donald Tovey
- Anahit Tsitsikian
- Alan Tyson
- Leo Treitler
- Marc Vignal
- Frank Walker
- James Webster
- John Wilson
- Christoph Wolff
- Josephine Wright
- Neal Zaslaw
Ethnomusicologists
- Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev
- Mário de Andrade
- Jaime de Angulo
- Simha Arom
- Jesús Bal y Gay
- Béla Bartók
- Judith Becker
- Deben Bhattacharya
- John Blacking
- Constantin Brăiloiu
- Mellonee V. Burnim
- Joseph Canteloube
- Chalkdust
- Oriana Civile
- Judith R. Cohen
- Frances Densmore
- Joaquin Diaz González
- S. A. K. Durga
- Akin Euba
- Walter Graf
- Percy Grainger
- Ida Halpern
- David G. Hebert
- Mantle Hood
- Erich von Hornbostel
- Leoš Janáček
- Jean Jenkins
- Arthur Morris Jones
- Maud Karpeles
- Margaret J. Kartomi
- Zoltán Kodály
- Boris Kotlyarov
- Franjo Kuhač
- Jaap Kunst
- Filip Kutev
- Robert Lachmann
- Paul-Gilbert Langevin
- Argeliers León
- Alan Lomax
- John Lomax
- William P. Malm
- Portia K. Maultsby
- David P. McAllester
- Alan P. Merriam
- Bruno Nettl
- Mirko Ramovš
- Willard Rhodes
- Joel Rubin
- Wilhelm Rust
- Charles Seeger
- Kay Kaufman Shelemay
- Laura Alexandrine Smith
- Michael Tenzer
- Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
- Anahit Tsitsikian
- Colin Turnbull
- Armas Otto Väisänen
- Richard Widdess
- Vinko Žganec
Systematic musicologists
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Aristotle
- Karlheinz Brandenburg
- Albert Bregman
- John Chowning
- Nicolas Collins
- Ivor Darreg
- Diana Deutsch
- Renato Fasano
- Gustav Fechner
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Bart Hopkin
- Yuri Landman
- Fred Lerdahl
- François-Bernard Mâche
- Dario Martinelli
- Gabriel Pareyon
- Richard Parncutt
- Harry Partch
- Pythagoras
- Carl Seashore
- Klaus Scherer
- Carl Stumpf
- Eero Tarasti
- Ernst Heinrich Weber
- Erv Wilson