El sentido de la historicidad en música: España "versus" Europa

Abstract

The inherent factors of music art defined its preservation and transmission and they didn't allow to develop its own historic conscience. This late progress of historicity sense if we compare with the remaining arts, will define the further development of this science, which in practice will not become mature before the last third of XVIII century. However the progress of historiography in Spain was not effective until the beginning of XIX century, thanks to the works of the theoretic and musician José de Teixidor y Barceló, who published in 1804 his "Discurso Universal de la Música" while the work "Historia de la Música Española" remained as a manuscript. This last one was the source for a main part of the Spanish more relevant historians from the XIX century. The localisation of a new copy of this manuscript, clearly more extensive and elaborate than the ones already known, outlines an overall revision of the historiographic phenomena in Spain.