Die Musikforschung is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of musicology which since 1948 is published on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung by Bärenreiter.

The editors-in-chief are Fabian Kolb[1] (Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts), Wolfgang Fuhrmann [de] (Leipzig University), Gregor Herzfeld (University of Regensburg), and Barbara Eichner[2] (Oxford Brookes University).

[3] The journal covers music history, theory, and practice.

A review section discusses German and foreign-language books and scholarly editions of sheet music.

Reports provide summaries of relevant congresses and conferences.