@article{Varoni de Castro_2020, title={Tecnologías del saber musical en Río de Janeiro en el siglo XIX: el caso de la viola}, volume={8}, url={http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/oidopensante/article/view/7599}, DOI={10.34096/oidopensante.v8n1.7599}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">This article discusses methodological strategies for dealing with historical sources in (ethno)musicology research. I name this approach “technologies of musical knowledge” and besides a review of the importance of technologies for the development of (ethno)musicology, I support my perspective through visual examples from my own investigation about the <em>violas </em>in nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro. I argue that despite the myriad of sources available, including iconographic representation (drawings and paintings), travelogues, chronicle and fictional literature, musical scores and tutors; their ethnographic information can only emerge out of a process of interpretation that involves a full assessment of the representational medium in which the data is presented. In other words, I defend that a thorough analysis and interpretation of musical documents depends on the awareness of the technological enablements and constraints in which the historical representations are inscribed.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={El oído pensante}, author={Varoni de Castro, Renato Moreira}, year={2020}, month={feb.} }