La música especulativa
Hasler, Johann · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2005
Speculative music, or music theory with an esoteric base, has existed since ancient times in parallel with more mainstream aspects of music theory and musicology. Farfrom becoming extinct after the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, speculative music has survived modernity, and recurs in times of cultural crises, repeatedly offering hopes of a spiritual and humanistic renewal through the return to more “natural” forms of music, closer to the physical and acoustical bases of soundthan the elaborate and “artificial” intellectual constructs developed during “high modernism”. This article offers ageneral overview of this less known aspect of musicology and musical theory, in its conceptual, historical, andcurrent aspects.