Musicology and Music Education

I am currently working on an independent study where I am examining the gender roles of the characters in Francesca Caccini’s opera, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola. As a part of my project, I am reading many articles and books on feminist music theory and feminist musicology. The musicology and music theory books address the same issues that we have been discussing in class and what was discussed at the Teacher’s College conference. This caused me to rethink Roberta Lamb’s statement, where she encouraged music teachers and musicologists to come together. I find it strange that the ideas are so similar, yet the two fields rarely interact with each other. This poses the question; what should the connection between musicology and music education be?