Musicology Terminology

noun a person who studies or writes about music, especially as a profession

• The musicologist conducted extensive research on the composer's manuscripts.
• My friend is a musicologist and he knows everything about classical music.
• I didn't know being a musicologist could be so cool!
• As a musicologist of emotions, she could decipher the feelings behind every note.

noun a text considered to be an original or authoritative source

• The scholar insisted on studying the urtext of the ancient manuscript.
• I found a really old book that might be the urtext for this subject.
• Dude, this is like the urtext of all conspiracy theories!
• In a way, the original painting serves as the urtext for all the replicas.