TY - JOUR AU - Vergauwen, David PY - 2018/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Toward a ‘Masonic musicology’ Some theoretical issues on the study of Music in relation to Freemasonry JF - REHMLAC+, Revista de Estudios Históricos de la Masonería Latinoamericana y Caribeña plus JA - REHMLAC+ VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Artículos (arbitrada) DO - 10.15517/rehmlac.v10i2.34940 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/34940 SP - 139-156 AB - <p>The paradigm called ‘<em>New Historicism</em>’ and its many spin-offs like <em>‘New Musicology</em>’, proclaims that an art historian should no longer limit itself to solely the study of an artwork, but should instead focus on its historical and sociological “context”. By means of a new tool that we shall label “<em>Masonic musicology</em>” will argue that the logic used by <em>New Musicologists</em> and of even <em>Ethnomusicologists</em> also applies to the study of music in relation to freemasonry. Studying a composer’s involvement with freemasonry, can lead to inspiring new interpretations of a composer’s work.&nbsp;</p> ER -