musicology

As nouns the difference between musical and musicology

is that musical is a stage performance, show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting while musicology is the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.

As an adjective musical

is of or relating to music.

As nouns the difference between musicology and ethnology

is that musicology is the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound while ethnology is the branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

In lang=en terms the difference between musicology and ethnomusicology

is that musicology is the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound while ethnomusicology is the study of music and culture; the study of music as it relates to its cultural context.

As a noun musicology is

(music) the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.

As nouns the difference between musicology and muscology

is that musicology is the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound while muscology is bryology.