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Without music life seems to be boring and lonely. Listening to music give us a warmth feeling to relax and sometimes it reminisce our past especially about our past love to someone. Many wonder on how music comes from. The field of music history sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer’s life and works, the developments of styles and genres, the social function of music for a particular group of people such as music at the court, or the modes of performance a particular place and time.

In theory, music history could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music. In practice, these research topics are nearly always categorized as part of ethnomusicology or cultural studies, whether or not they are ethnographically based. However Sociological studies focus on the function of music in society as well as its meaning for individuals and society as a whole. Researchers emphasizing the social importance of music including classical music are sometimes called New musicologists wherein semiotic studies are most conventionally the province of music analysts rather than historians.