Word.ws English Dictionary

archaeomusicology

archaeomusicology noun: an interdisciplinary study field that combines musicology and archaeology.

Noun

archaeomusicology (uncountable)

  1. An interdisciplinary study field that combines musicology and archaeology.
    • Mr. [Fritz A.] Kuttner has written widely on the subjects of acoustics, archaeomusicology, Oriental music, and psychoacoustics.1963, HiFi/Stereo Review, page 33, column 2
    • Support for an artificial break comes from archaeomusicology and comparative organology (the study of sound instruments).1990, Qedem, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, page 143, column 1

Origin of archaeomusicology

From archaeo- + musico- + -logy.

Words formed from archaeomusicology

Questions about archaeomusicology

What does archaeomusicology mean?
Archaeomusicology means an interdisciplinary study field that combines musicology and archaeology.
What part of speech is archaeomusicology?
Archaeomusicology is a noun.

Words near archaeomusicology in the dictionary

  1. archaeometrists
  2. archaeometry
  3. archaeomusicological
  4. archaeomusicologist
  5. archaeomusicologists
  6. archaeomusicology
  7. archaeomythological
  8. archaeomythology
  9. archaeon
  10. archaeons
  11. archaeonycteridid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: archaeomusicology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “archaeomusicology.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/archaeomusicology. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.