Histories of Brazilian Music and Musicology: a preliminary reading

Abstract

There is a very few books arguing about the History of Brazilian Music in Brazil. There are no studies regarding their authorships, schools, methods, yet still the books are given as references and read by as diletant public as scholars. Therefore it will be identified which, from the histories written, were consolidated by the traditional historiography. Secondly, it will be analyzed if, as it had happened with the histories of music written abroad, the histories of Brazil were the goal of the Historical Musicology and at last, it will be analyzed the relation these histories bears with concurrent historical methodologies.