Discourses around the score: Readings on identity in the work of Pedro Ximénez from the perspective of Frank Ankersmit’s narrativism

Frank Ankersmit has proposed that historical discourses and representations, far from interfering with one another, may complement each other and help to construct more complete visions of the phenomenon studied. The present article tries to apply this perspective to different representations built around the work of the composer Pedro Ximénez Abrill, referred to identity. The historical narrative that we choose to construct from the interpretation of the data in the written musical source could be one of the many possible discursive constructions that are equally valid and that, without implying inaccuracy and unreliability, would contribute to build a better vision of the past from its multiplicity.