In addition, from the end of the eighteenth century, the term began to be used in ethnomusicological Coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos and μουσική mousike (music), it is often considered the anthropology or ethnography of music. Jeff Todd Titon has called it the study of "people making music." Although it is often thought of as a study of non-Western musics, ethnomusicology also includes the study of contexts to describe pitch structures in non-European musical cultures, sometimes with doubtful compatibility (Powers 2001, §V,1).
This article addresses the scale-like meaning.
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