DISCOURSE ON THE COMPARATIVE METHOD
DISCOURSE ON THE COMPARATIVE METHOD

Summary/Abstract: Established as authoritary discipline in humanist sciences, particularly in anthropology, the comparativism will generate surprising evolutions and will deffine itself as an efficent investigation method, reaching a certain level of research depth. The essay is structured in two sections. The first one circumscribes some general coordinates of the comparativism viewed as a method, trying to clarify, as much as possible, its qualities and its limits. In the second section I accomplished a translation of these principles in the interpretative activity, applying the comparative method in the main territories of the musical morphology, particularly focusing on their rendering in piano interpretation. I also tried in this essay a diachronic approach towards the comparative method, as it is conditioned by multiple socio-cultural and historical parameters. Verified, validated and honored with obvious results, the comparative method continues to keep its efficiency in musical interpretation by the intimation of details, the creation of interpretative models and the marks it can offer in stylistic and historical approaches. We believe that the essay can offer certain conceptual and attitudinal articulations for this research area.

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