Musicology
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance.Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science. This includes music theory, aesthetics, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology of musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing.
When musicologists carry out research using computers, their research often falls under the field of computational musicology. Music therapy, a well known field in music, is a specialized form of applied musicology which is sometimes considered more closely affiliated with health fields, and other times regarded as part of musicology proper.
Musicology encompasses all aspects of music and sound in all cultures, places, and historical periods. In practice, musicology includes a wide variety of methods of studying music as a scholarly endeavor, including music history, music analysis, ethnomusicology, music theory and much, much more
Digital Humanities
DH is an interdisciplinary field that uses a variety of digital tools and computational methods to analyze, preserve, and share human culture. This process involves collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing. By producing and using new applications and techniques, DH makes new kinds of teaching possible while also studying and critiquing their impact on cultural heritage and digital culture.
Digital humanities developed from humanities computing and has since become associated with other fields, such as humanistic computing, social computing, and media studies.