Musicology is the scholarly study of music. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields,including psychology,sociology,acoustics,neurology,natural sciences,formal sciences and computer science.
Jacob Senleches was a Franco-Flemish composer and harpist of the late Middle Ages. He composed in a style commonly known as the ars subtilior.
Gerard Thomas Gillen is one of the most prominent Irish organists and a Professor Emeritus in Music at Maynooth University. As an organist,he has performed globally and recorded several CDs. Gillen's research interests lie in the areas of Catholic church music,organ building,and performance practice.
Gerard Henri Luc Béhague was an eminent Franco-American ethnomusicologist and professor of Latin American music. His specialty was the music of Brazil and the Andean countries and the influence of West Africa on the music of the Caribbean and South America,especially candomblémusic. His lifelong work earned him recognition as the leading scholar of Latin American ethnomusicology.
Richard Sharpe,,Hon. was a British historian and academic,who was Professor of Diplomatic at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Wadham College,Oxford. His broad interests were the history of medieval England,Ireland,Scotland and Wales. He had a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history,including the practices of palaeography,diplomatic and the editorial process,as well as the historical and legal contexts of medieval documents. He was the general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, and editor of a forthcoming edition of the charters of King Henry I of England.
The tiompán (Irish),tiompan,or timpan (Welsh) was a stringed musical instrument used by musicians in medieval Ireland and Britain.
Maol Ruanaidh Cam ÓCearbhaill,otherwise An Giolla Caoch and Cam ÓCearbhaill,sometimes anglicised as Cam O'Kayrwill was a notable Irish harpist and player of the tiompan,murdered with many others at the Braganstown Massacre.
Yitzhak Hen is Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History,formerly at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). Since August 2018 he has been the director of Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Amhlaeibh Mac Innaighneorach,Chief Harper of Ireland,died 1168.
Finn ÓHaughluinn,Irish musician,died 1490.
Magrath ÓFionnachta was an Irish musician.
Margaret Beryl Clunies Ross is a medievalist who was until her retirement in 2009 the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study. Since 1997 she has led the project of editing a new edition of the corpus of skaldic poetry. She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Music archaeology is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines musicology and archaeology. As it includes the study of music from various cultures,it is often considered to be a subfield of ethnomusicology.
Mark Everist is a British music historian,critic and musicologist.
Francis Llewellyn Harrison,FBA,better known as "Frank Harrison" or "Frank Ll. Harrison" was one of the leading musicologists of his time and a pioneering ethnomusicologist. Initially trained as an organist and composer,he turned to musicology in the early 1950s,first specialising in English and Irish music of the Middle Ages and increasingly turning to ethnomusicological subjects in the course of his career. His Music in Medieval Britain (1958) is still a standard work on the subject,and Time,Place and Music (1973) is a key textbook on ethnomusicology.
Joan Rimmer was an English musicologist who specialised in the history of musical instruments and in historical dance forms. She was also a pioneer in ethnomusicology who presented,in the course of 30 years,numerous programmes on traditional music from around to the world on BBC radio.
Harry White is an Irish musicologist and university professor. With specialisations in Irish musical and cultural history,the music of the Austrian baroque composer Johann Joseph Fux,and the development of Anglo-American musicology since 1945,he is one of the most widely published and influential academics in his areas of research. White is also a poet,with two published collections of poetry.
Magister Franciscus was a French composer-poet in the ars nova style of late medieval music. He is known for two surviving works,the three-part ballades:De Narcissus and Phiton,Phiton,beste tres venimeuse;the former was widely distributed in his lifetime. Modern scholarship disagrees on whether Franciscus was the same person as the composer F. Andrieu.
Gilbert Reaney was an English musicologist who specialized in medieval and Renaissance music,theory and literature. Described as "one of the most prolific and influential musicologists of the past century",Reaney made significant contributions to his fields of expertise,particularly on the life and works of Guillaume de Machaut,as well as medieval music theory.
Rachel Moss is an Irish art historian and professor specialising in medieval art,with a particular interest in Insular art,medieval Irish Gospel books and monastic history. She is the current head of the Department of the History of Art at Trinity College Dublin,where she became a fellow in 2022.
