“Musical Musicology”: Music and Sound as Means of Critical Research

Abstract

Musicology is a diverse field of research. From the so-called New Musicology, this diversity was amplified from the questions that postmodern thought brought on subjectivity and human perception. However, despite the diversity of musicological perspectives that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century, scientists and logocentric principles of musicology were not questioned: the word remained the main means of expression of this discipline, and questions and methodologies of the field continued to respond to the epistemological logic that dominates in the social sciences.This article will explore three areas of research that conceive music not only as a research object, but also as a different form of knowledge. At the end of the article we will propose a specific notion of "musical musicology.