Postmodernity: the doubt as a form of civilization; certainty as barbarism

Postmodernity has aroused many reactions among historians around the world. As was expected, musicology has not been apart from this process of debate and the own musical interpretation has been affected by the new philosophical tendencies.One of the last contribuitions has been Prof. Reinhard Strohm's article Postmodern Thought and the Historiy of Music: Some Intersections, published at the Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, 9, directed by Manuel Carlos de Brito. This synthesis, suported on a precise bibliography, offers a reflection on some points of essential interest focused on some aspects: periodizations, perspectives of anti-modernity, the reception of premodern music, the conflict that serious opera represents to differenciate between modern and postmodern perspectives, and the interpretation of Ancient Music in relation to the…