THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY OF MUSIC: POSTMODERN CONSEQUENCES AND DEFORMATIONS
THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY OF MUSIC: POSTMODERN CONSEQUENCES AND DEFORMATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Today, the discipline of music history does not seem to be, and indeed is no longer, what Guido Adler and Hugo Riemann formulated in their writings. The difference lies both in the structure and in the understanding of what is, in fact, and history, and music, then and now. If the intention of both inventors of modern musicology was a founding-recuperative one, then both the structure and the postmodern understanding rely exclusively on the recycling procedure with the meaning of rewriting. Hence the set of conflicts between, on the one hand, the new understandings and contents of more and more histories, and, on the other hand, the resistance to preserve the scholastic methodology, which generally refuses to evolve, forming new generations of students in terms of already anachronistic didactic contents.

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