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Musicologia e história: Fronteira ou "terra de ninguém" entre duas disciplinas?

2007; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Issue: 157 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i157p15-29

2316-9141

Myriam Chimènes,

Music History and Culture

On one hand, few musicologists consider Music as a historical fact, and thus orientate their researches towards cultural history. On the other, historians have neglected Music thus far. Contrary to art history, which has attracted the interest of others (historians in particular), music is not coveted, and seems to be ignored. How can we explain why Music stays too often on the sidelines of historians studies? Although historians are interested in picture records, they systematically avoid Music, as if accessibility and legibility where too difficult. Conversely, musicologists put their object of study in context, but are not concerned with what Music could bring to the understanding of history. Are we to suggest to musicologists another reading of their sources, so that they may question Music in order to shed new lights on History?