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Vol. 26, No. 2, 2026. Submission deadline: September 30, 2026.

Thematic Dossier: “ Musical Analysis and Canon Construction in Latin America: Repertoires, Circulation, and Historiography ”

Guest editor : Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira (USP)

*** Note: For this issue, Revista Música will only accept submissions that fall within the theme of this Dossier. ***

 

 Choosing a work as the object of musical analysis is not a neutral act. By dedicating an in-depth investigation process to a composition, the researcher simultaneously performs an act of interpretation, selection, and attribution of aesthetic, historical, and epistemological relevance. Musical analysis thus participates in the mechanisms of visibility and legitimation that influence the circulation of repertoires, critical reception, and the construction of historiographical narratives.

From this perspective, analysis transcends its strictly descriptive or technical dimension and assumes itself as a critical practice capable of intervening in the processes of constitution and consolidation of canons. By interacting with structural, poetic, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of certain works, the person who analyzes contributes to their insertion into networks of meaning that frequently extend beyond the limits of the object being investigated itself.

In the case of Latin American musical works, this issue takes on special relevance, since a significant portion of this production remains insufficiently represented in reference repertoires, academic curricula, and predominant historiographical narratives. In this context, musical analysis can play a decisive role in identifying continuities, ruptures, influences, and processes of aesthetic circulation capable of repositioning works and authors within the history of music.

By examining Latin American works and mapping their networks of interaction, the analyst contributes to understanding the processes by which certain musical ideas spread, transform, and become integrated into repertoires of greater institutional recognition. This perspective allows us to recognize Latin American composers and works as active agents in the formulation of procedures, concepts, and languages that influence musical production on a broader scale. Thus emerge processes of exchange, negotiation, and reciprocity that challenge traditional models of historical interpretation.

This dossier invites researchers to reflect on the role of musical analysis in the constitution, revision, and expansion of canons, focusing on Latin American works. Contributions that discuss repertoires, composers, creative processes, networks of influence, historiographical issues, and analytical approaches capable of broadening the understanding of Latin American participation in the construction of contemporary musical thought are welcome.

Below, we suggest some thematic guidelines for framing the works, which may relate to more than one of the categories presented:

  1. Musical analysis and canonization processes of Latin American repertoires;
  2. Relationships between musical analysis, performance, listening, and interpretative practices of Latin American works;
  3. Theory and analysis of Latin American popular music;
  4. Processes of circulation, reception, and legitimation of musical repertoires in Latin America;
  5. Networks of influence, exchange, and cultural transfer between composers from Latin America and other regions of the world;
  6. Latin American contributions to the formulation of contemporary musical techniques, compositional procedures, and languages;
  7. Analysis of creative processes, sketches, manuscripts, correspondence, and working documents of Latin American composers;
  8. Analytical approaches applied to electroacoustic, mixed, experimental music and new musical technologies in Latin America;
  9. Analysis of music for film, theater, dance, multimedia performance, and other forms of interdisciplinary creation in Latin America;
  10. Studies on rhythm, meter, temporality, and corporeality in Latin American repertoires;
  11. Analytical resources applied to Latin American music production;
  12. Musical analysis and historiographical review;
  13. Networks of influence, exchange and cultural transfer;
  14. Relationships between musical analysis, performance, and repertoire building;
  15. The role of musical analysis in academic training, repertoire development, and the construction of musical memory.

 

Languages supported: Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

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