Musical Text Interpretation and Performance by Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics

In Truth and Method, from 1960, Hans-Georg Gadamer searched for the legitimation of human sciences epistemological independence, in that the experience of truth in those would not limit itself to the natural sciences methodological domain. Gadamer proposes a philosophical hermeneutics that looks to reveal the fore-structure that operates in all understanding and interpretation. The musical text interpretation is among those cases that do not limit itself to the method domain, however, it does not reduce the necessity of the application of a rigorous sense in the reflection of their possibilities. Gadamerian concepts collaborate in the enlightenment of these possibilities. The hermeneutic rationality is here introduced as a critical and useful aspect for the understanding of the interpretation and performance of the music referring to a musical text.