Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
音乐学家因此推测,在被西方音乐家采用之前,全音阶已经发展和使用了数千年。
There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.
有些音乐学者宣称,蒙台威尔第、巴赫和斯特拉文斯基是音乐史上三位伟大的创新者,虽然这种说法存在争议。
The piano was perfected in the early eighteenth century by a harpsichord maker in Italy (though musicologists point out several previous instances of the instrument).