The Failures of of a Twenty-Second-Century Historical Musicologist

Authors

• Costin Moisil Universitatea Națională de Muzică București (National University of Music Bucharest)

Keywords:

field research, written tradition, oral tradition, notation

Abstract

My paper explores the hypothetical work of a musicologist of the future interested in church music sung in Bucharest in 2019. What evidence would such an musicologist find in manuscripts and printed books in order to reconstruct the repertoire chanted? What would he think about the repertories in use? What would he be likely to miss?