Abstract
This article discusses the relation between the building up of a musical
canon and the practice of musicology in Mexico over the last twenty years.
Its starting point is the criticism of a series of printed study-sheets for
use in schools which show the zero impact of musicology at the level of
general education in this country. The article suggests the need to
establish and make available a corpus of the work of the most important
Mexican composers via the, recording and edition of their music, while
promoting critical studies aimed at identifying the esthetic values of the
music in question. In the light of this need, which in other countries has
been recognized as one of musicology's normative tasks, the essay
criticizes the documentary approach employed in much musicological work and
the lack of rigorous methodology underlying much of musical research in
Mexico, and calls for the exercise of an informed and up-to-date
musicology, embracing a greater critical sense and with greater esthetic;
objectivity as regards delimitation of its subject matter.
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