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# Introduction

This free course gathers together a range of materials to enable you to explore some of the many possibilities for research music. It gives you a series of snapshots of musicology, emphasising both the breadth of musical topics that might be studied by a music researcher and the many different ways in which such study might be approached. After a brief exploration of how the term musicology might be defined, the course considers four topics:

- feminist musicology
- historically informed performance
- grime music and its reception in the UK
- soundscapes.

To begin the course, complete Activity 1.

## Activity 1 Music in everyday life

Timing: Allow around 10 minutes to complete this activity.

Think broadly about the music you experience in everyday life and make a list of up to ten such ‘musical’ sounds.

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This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1.

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