Per uno studio della storiografia musicale in Italia nel XIX secolo

Italian musicologists have hitherto shown scant interest in the music historiography of the nineteenth century. And to date, there has been no global vision of the ways of which history was written during the period in which scientific musicology was born (the late nineteenth century and early twentieth). Also with a view to engaging on a “history of the histories of music” some time in the future, the paper examines the following issues: 1) the passage from history interpreted philosophically to history written by professional historians; 2) the foundation of the categories of “monument” and “document” and the relative processes of historicization (German: Historisierung) in the field of m…