El patrimonio musical en la convergencia entre musicología y etnomusicología

Abstract

Preserving culture is an essential element in societal development in the context of the globalization that characterizes the international situation. The cultural heritage received from the past is one of the more prominent aspects in defense of local, national and regional identities. Professional musicians who work «with» musical heritage are often faced with events and situations that show a dual identity: those that lead to a purely musicological space, dominated principally by historical musicology, or to another area where the focus seems to be governed by social context, a field reserved for Ethnomusicology. This increasingly wide gap also manifests itself in studies on musical heritage, and shows the inadequacy of the divide between historical musicology and ethnomusicology, between writing and orality and between diachronic and synchronic perspectives.