List of musicologists

A musicologist is someone who studies music (see musicology). A historical musicologist studies music from a historical perspective. An ethnomusicologist studies music in its cultural and social contexts (see ethnomusicology). A systematic musicologist asks general questions about music from the perspective of relevant disciplines (psychology, sociology, acoustics, philosophy, physiology, computer science) (see systematic musicology). Systematic musicologists often identify more strongly with their non-musical discipline than with musicology.

Historical musicologists

 * Mário de Andrade
 * Carolyn Abbate
 * Byron Adams
 * Guido Adler
 * Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
 * August Wilhelm Ambros
 * Willi Apel
 * Denis Arnold
 * Philippe A. Autexier
 * Eva Badura-Skoda
 * Margaret Bent
 * Heinrich Besseler
 * Yael Bitrán
 * Peter Bloom
 * Philip Brett
 * Rae Linda Brown
 * Howard Mayer Brown
 * Charles Faulkner Bryan
 * Michael J. Budds
 * J. Peter Burkholder
 * Dimitrije Bužarovski
 * Manfred Bukofzer
 * Roberto Carnevale
 * Peter Case
 * Federico Celestini
 * Samuel Charters
 * Richard Charteris
 * Friedrich Chrysander
 * Edward T. Cone
 * Charles-Edmond-Henri de Coussemaker
 * Ry Cooder
 * Ludwig Czaczkes
 * Frank D'Accone
 * Carl Dahlhaus
 * Thurston Dart
 * John Daverio
 * Dalibor Davidović
 * Joshua F. Drake
 * S. A. K. Durga
 * Alfred Einstein
 * Alexander John Ellis
 * Séamus Ennis
 * Robert Fink
 * François-Joseph Fétis
 * Paul Gambaccini
 * Karl Geiringer
 * Tula Giannini
 * Roger Mathew Grant
 * Robert Greenberg
 * Donald Jay Grout
 * Ursula Günther
 * Bartol Gyurgieuvits
 * Harry Halbreich
 * Roger Lee Hall
 * Mickey Hart
 * Daniel Heartz
 * Seppo Heikinheimo
 * Sam Henry
 * Willy Hess
 * Ernst Hilmar
 * H. Wiley Hitchcock
 * Hans-Jørgen Holman
 * Richard Hoppin
 * George Pullen Jackson
 * Richard Jackson
 * Simon P. Keefe
 * Joseph Kerman
 * Otto Kinkeldey
 * Jerome Kohl
 * Lawrence Kramer
 * Paul-Gilbert Langevin
 * Kendra Preston Leonard
 * Robert Lissauer
 * Lewis Lockwood
 * Alan Lomax
 * John Lomax
 * Edward Lowinsky
 * Friedrich Ludwig
 * Ciarán Mac Mathúna
 * Eusebius Mandyczewski
 * Maria Rika Maniates
 * Joseph de Marliave
 * Susan McClary
 * R. C. Mehta
 * Otto Mayer-Serra
 * Lalmani Misra
 * Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny
 * Pierre Monichon
 * Domenico Morgante
 * Jean-Jacques Nattiez
 * Anthony Newcomb
 * Gustav Nottebohm
 * Michael Nyman
 * Claude V. Palisca
 * Dom Joseph Pothier
 * André Pirro
 * Nino Pirrotta
 * Leon B. Plantinga
 * Howard Pollack
 * Harold Powers
 * Michael Praetorius
 * N. Ramanathan
 * Gustave Reese
 * Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Charles Rosen
 * Julian Rushton
 * Stanley Sadie
 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Adolfo Salazar
 * Adrienne Simpson
 * Elaine Sisman
 * Eileen Southern
 * Philipp Spitta
 * Hedi Stadlen
 * Rita Steblin
 * Paul Steinitz
 * Reinhard Strohm
 * Oliver Strunk
 * Carl Stumpf
 * Edward Tarr
 * Richard Taruskin
 * Erik W. Tawaststjerna
 * Nicholas Temperley
 * Jeff Todd Titon
 * Donald Tovey
 * Anahit Tsitsikian
 * Alan Tyson
 * Leo Treitler
 * Marc Vignal
 * James Webster
 * John Wilson
 * Christoph Wolff
 * Josephine Wright
 * Neal Zaslaw

Ethnomusicologists

 * Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev
 * Mário de Andrade
 * Jaime de Angulo
 * Simha Arom
 * Jesús Bal y Gay
 * Béla Bartók
 * Judith Becker
 * Deben Bhattacharya
 * John Blacking
 * Constantin Brăiloiu
 * Mellonee V. Burnim
 * Joseph Canteloube
 * Chalkdust
 * Oriana Civile
 * Judith R. Cohen
 * Frances Densmore
 * S. A. K. Durga
 * Akin Euba
 * Walter Graf
 * Percy Grainger
 * Ida Halpern
 * David G. Hebert
 * Mantle Hood
 * Erich von Hornbostel
 * Leoš Janáček
 * Jean Jenkins
 * Arthur Morris Jones
 * Maud Karpeles
 * Margaret J. Kartomi
 * Zoltán Kodály
 * Boris Kotlyarov
 * Franjo Kuhač
 * Jaap Kunst
 * Filip Kutev
 * Robert Lachmann
 * Paul-Gilbert Langevin
 * Argeliers León
 * Alan Lomax
 * John Lomax
 * William P. Malm
 * Portia K. Maultsby
 * David P. McAllester
 * Alan P. Merriam
 * Bruno Nettl
 * Mirko Ramovš
 * Willard Rhodes
 * Joel Rubin
 * Wilhelm Rust
 * Charles Seeger
 * Laura Alexandrine Smith
 * Michael Tenzer
 * Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
 * Anahit Tsitsikian
 * Colin Turnbull
 * Armas Otto Väisänen
 * Richard Widdess
 * Vinko Žganec

Systematic musicologists

 * Theodor W. Adorno
 * Aristotle
 * Karlheinz Brandenburg
 * Albert Bregman
 * John Chowning
 * Nicolas Collins
 * Ivor Darreg
 * Diana Deutsch
 * Renato Fasano
 * Gustav Fechner
 * Hermann von Helmholtz
 * Bart Hopkin
 * Yuri Landman
 * Fred Lerdahl
 * François-Bernard Mâche
 * Dario Martinelli
 * Gabriel Pareyon
 * Richard Parncutt
 * Harry Partch
 * Pythagoras
 * Carl Seashore
 * Klaus Scherer
 * Carl Stumpf
 * Eero Tarasti
 * Ernst Heinrich Weber
 * Erv Wilson