History of Musical Ideas

Abstract

In his book Music, Ideas, History: Texts 1990–2022  Matti Huttunen sheds light on the world of Western art music by showing how past historiographies of music have given it form and meaning. While grounded in Dahlhaus’ principles of structural history, Huttunen also challenges such models by allowing greater interpretive multidimensionality.  In future accounts of Finnish musicology, Huttunen’s writings may provide a focus for a “long 20th century” of musical historiography.