Music research at the undergraduate level at the National University of Loja: reference sources for musicological study

Abstract

The need for studies on the musicological subject in Latin America is a reality that must be addressed from all disciplines that can contribute to the study of musical understanding. In the case of Ecuador and especially of the city of Loja there is a significant number of sources for the study of the music that are not considered and in many cases rest in archives which most of them will never be rescued, doomed to deterioration and consequently to oblivion. The ongoing research, which this article is a first approximation, consists of addressing the issue of musical investigation as a product of the result from university education in the city of Loja, specifically, investigations that emerged from the Music Career of Universidad Nacional de Loja in recent years in the form of projects or theses, and they could mean an important contribution to the area of Musicology, in order to become reference sources of study for the generations of musicians and researchers to come from the newly Musical Arts career offered by this prestigious university.