Speculative Music

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RESUMEN: La música especulativa, o teoría musical con base en conceptos esotéricos, ha existido paralelamente con la teoría musical científica y cultural desde la antigüedad clásica. Lejos de haberse extinguido tras la revolución científica, la música especulativa ha sobrevivido de manera un tanto subterránea durante toda la modernidad y en tiempos de crisis culturales ha resurgido repetidamente con esperanzas de renovación espiritual y un retorno a una música más “natural”, leal a sus fuentes físicas y acústicas y menos “contaminada” por elaboradas construcciones “artificiales” del tipo de las surgidas en la “alta modernidad”. Este artículo ofrece una visión general de la música especulativa y de la actual investigación musicológica, artística y científica en este campo.ABSTRACT: 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. Far from 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 sound than the elaborate and “artificial” intellectual constructs developed during “high modernism”. This article offers a general overview of this less known aspect of musicology and musical theory, in its conceptual, historical, and current aspects

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