muzykologii

Muzykologia, or musicology, is the scholarly study of music as a cultural, historical, and aesthetic phenomenon. In Polish usage, muzykologia investigates how music is created, performed, received, and embedded in society, drawing on history, theory, ethnomusicology, philosophy, and digital humanities. The discipline seeks to understand music in context, produce critical editions, and illuminate interpretive questions about works and practices.

The field encompasses several subfields, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, systematic musicology, music theory and analysis, performance practice, organology, and music aesthetics. Methods commonly employed include archival and source studies, score analysis, fieldwork, interviews, discourse analysis, and increasingly computational and data-driven approaches.

Education typically occurs in university departments of musicology or related humanities programs, with degrees at bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Career paths include academia, libraries and archives, museums and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, and cultural administration. Collaborations with performers, composers, curators, and digital scholars are common.

Contemporary muzykologia engages with digital humanities, corpus studies, and music information research, as well as interdisciplinary work on sound, memory, and identity. The field continues to evolve through digitization of archives, critical edition projects, and cross-cultural studies of music traditions.