• The musicology discipline, which has existed since the end of the 19th century, deals with all questions about music and its manifestations from different perspectives. 
  • It is in constant interaction and close relationship to music practice, which always provides new impulses and content for research in history and the present, while in turn being influenced by musicology. 
  • Traditionally, musicology as humanities and cultural studies is divided into three sub-disciplines, which differ in terms of methodology and content, but still do not differentiate today: historical and systematic musicology and ethnomusicology.
  • The central subject of historical musicology has traditionally been European music history from antiquity to the present. 
  • Historical musicology encounters traditional sources with historiographical, ideological and socio-historical questions. The types of sources are as diverse as the knowledge that can be obtained from them