Biomusicology

Biomusicology is the study of music from a scientific point of view. Music is an aspect of the behaviour of the human species. As humans are living organisms, the scientific study of music is therefore part of biology, thus the "bio" in "biomusicology". Biomusicology is not quite the same thing as Music Theory, partly because the theoretical and academic study of music has historically been dominated by academics from a musical background rather than academics from a scientific background.