musicologist vs scholar

musicologist and scholar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
musicologist	Yes	No	No	No
scholar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholar is a hypernym of musicologist; that is, scholar is a word with a broader meaning than musicologist:

musicologist: a student of musicology
scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of musicologist include bookman, scholarly person.

musicologist (noun)	scholar (noun)
a student of musicology	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
	a student who holds a scholarship