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Interaction Between Systematic Musicology and Research on Traditional Music

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The origin of systematic musicology is strongly linked to the studies of music cultures of non-Western origin. From the methodological point of view, folk music research applied systematic methods to collect and analyze data. Anthropology of music and later ethnomusicology had a different focus: musical phenomena should be interpreted in their cultural context. The cognitive approach was the third paradigm change in the field of systematic musicology, which again changed both methodology as well the point of view of research topics. In cross-cultural music cognition, as well as in cognitive ethnomusicology, previous approaches in systematic musicology, ethnomusicology, and cognitive science of music are combined: systematic analysis of data related to human cognition interpreted in a cultural context.