摘要：Systematic musicology is an umbrella
term, used mainly in Central Europe, for
subdisciplines of musicology that are primarily
concerned with music in general, rather than
specific manifestations of music. This article
aims to explain the concept in English to
international music scholars. Scientific systematic
musicology (or scientific musicology)
is primarily empirical and data-oriented; it
involves empirical psychology and sociology,
acoustics, physiology, neurosciences, cognitive
sciences, and computing and technology.
Humanities systematic musicology (or cultural
musicology) involves disciplines and paradigms
such as philosophical aesthetics, theoretical
sociology, semiotics, hermeneutics,
music criticism, and cultural and gender studies.
The discipline of systematic musicology
is less unified than its sister disciplines historical
musicology and ethnomusicology: its
contents and methods are more diverse and
tend to be more closely related to parent disciplines,
both academic and practical, outside of
musicology. The diversity of systematic musicology
is to some extent compensated for by
interdisciplinary interactions within the system
of subdisciplines that make it up (systemic
musicology). The origins of systematic musicology
in Europe can be traced to ancient
Greece. Historical musicology and ethnomusicology
are much younger disciplines, and the
relative importance of the three has fluctuated
considerably during recent centuries. Today,
musicology's three broad subdisciplines are
about equally important in terms of the volume
of research activity.
