<p>I hear Cornell is great at musicology, and i looked it up and i'm still not certain what it entails. Is it like...the different styles of music in different parts of the world? But then why is "ethnomusicology" a different term? Does it include music theory or not? I just don't understand.</p>
<p>WHAT IS MUSICOLOGY??</p>
<p>Musicology is the history of western music -- from medieval to contemporary -- what you think of as "classical" music; music theory includes the analysis of music and the history of the analysis of music; ethnomusicology is the study of world music, e.g., Latin American, Roma, Klezmer music. Some top musicology departments are: UC Berkeley, Columbia, University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale; Penn, UCLA, Cornell, Stanford; Oberlin, Williams, and Amherst have strong musicology departments for LAC's.</p>
<p>Hmm...could a strong musicology undergrad degree get one into a grad school for composition?</p>
<p>many of these departments offer courses in composition, and some programs allow an emphasis in composition -- and many have a lot of composition students (e.g., UC Berkeley) at the graduate level. Most likely, however, it would be your compositions that would get you into graduate programs. And a conservatory program (e.g., Oberlin) might be a better bet.</p>