Systematic musicology is an
umbrella term, used mainly in
Central Europe, for several subdisciplines and paradigms of
musicology. The most important subdisciplines today are
music psychology,
sociomusicology (music sociology),
philosophy of music (music philosophy),
music acoustics (physics of music),
cognitive neuroscience of music, and the computer sciences of music (including
sound and music computing,
music information retrieval, and computing in musicology. These subdisciplines and paradigms tend to address questions about
music in general, rather than specific manifestations of music.