Musicology, musicology, is the general name of all theoretical disciplines that study music. The general task of musicology is to clarify their essence and laws through various phenomena related to music. For example, the research on the relationship between music and ideology includes music aesthetics, music history, music ethnology, music psychology, music pedagogy and so on. Music acoustics, law, musical instrument science and so on are the subjects that study the material characteristics of music. The study of music form and its composition includes melody, harmony, counterpoint and formalism. There are also performance considerations, such as performance theory and command methods.

Music education is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Music education in a broad sense refers to all education that affects people's thoughts and feelings, thinking quality and enhances knowledge and skills through music, mainly referring to organized, planned and purposeful school music education according to certain social requirements. School education can generally be divided into preschool education, basic education, higher education, adult education and so on.

Music pedagogy is a humanities and social discipline that aims at cultivating and shaping people and runs through the whole process of education. Music pedagogy is an interdisciplinary subject, which is the product of the mutual infiltration and blending of musicology and pedagogy. Music pedagogy, as a field of pedagogy, with the rise of subject pedagogy, embodies the professional trend of pedagogy development. Taking music pedagogy as a field of musicology can be traced back to earlier.