Musicology Papers is the international journal of musicology of the Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1965 as a platform initially destined to present the research conducted by the teaching staff of the institution. Among the journal’s founders were Sigismund Toduţă, Liviu Comes, Romeo Ghircoiaşiu, Vasile Herman, Cornel Ţăranu, Ileana Szenik and Dan Voiculescu. The impressive variety of subjects and approaches in the volumes published during the early decades bears witness to the wide range of preoccupations that animate the academic activity in an institution that also takes pride in being the first Romanian organiser of doctoral studies in music.
After a gap between 1991 and 2008, the journal was revived as a biannual and bilingual (EN/RO) publication dedicated to musicological research in the broadest sense. It invites international and national researchers to present their original work using various methodological perspectives. Therefore, papers dealing with historiography, musical analysis, musical aesthetics, musical semiotics, hermeneutics, performance studies, etc. are welcome. The journal also considers reviews of books, critical editions and digital resources.

The Journal is indexed in ERIH PLUS, RILM, EBSCO, CEEOL and is classified as B category by The National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCS).