THE TOOLS OF MUSICOLOGY (A TALE IN 12 POLEMIC HYPOTHESES)
THE TOOLS OF MUSICOLOGY (A TALE IN 12 POLEMIC HYPOTHESES)

Summary/Abstract: Though undeclared, the issue dealt with in this text is accessibility. Arranging the words into sentences and building a coherent discourse requires a mandatory clarity of the purposes and, implicitly, of the methods that enable the transmission and acquisition of information. Thus, the most effective genre of the discourse is the tale, also joined by the non-invasive quality of hypothesis: a tale in several hypotheses. At the heart of this tale is musicology, the most non-musical way to approach music, but also the most powerful epistemological tool to know its meanings, structures and images. The non-musicality of this scientific discipline lies in its notionality, standing in a radical opposition to the intuitiveness of composition as an art. But by positioning the art of performance between the two seemingly “irreconcilable” poles, it becomes clear that all three practices are in reality three inseparable functions of a whole that is musical thinking. And musicology acquires the chance to overcome the “stigma” of literariness through the “synesthetic” relationship with myth and poetry.

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