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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Harry Smith
Harry Smith
American filmmaker, painter, musicologist, ethnographer, collector, and mystic
Friedrich Chrysander
German music historian and critic
Adler, Guido
Guido Adler
Austrian musicologist
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
Austrian musicologist
George Perle
American composer, music theorist, and educator
Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Stainer, Sir John
Sir John Stainer
British composer
Charles Bordes
French composer
Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray
French composer
Thurston Dart
British musician
Ralph Kirkpatrick
American musician
Ambros, August Wilhelm
August Wilhelm Ambros
Czech musicologist
Nicolas Slonimsky
American musicologist, conductor, and composer
Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
John Lomax
American folklorist

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Sheet music. Handwritten music score. Music staff. Classical music composer composition. Musical notation.
Musicology