Utopías sonoras: escollos y peligros de músicas idealizadas

Half a century after its first publication, this article retrieves the presence of music in Tomas Moro's Utopia, as well as in other similar texts from the time when music played a significant role. The exercise serves to explore the use of music as part of utopian philosophies and ideas, to show some of the idealistic, historical and aesthetic notions given to music and its composers in the 16th and 17th centuries. In its second section, the article analyzes such utopian notions in the recurrent ideas and speech of the Mexican composer Julian Carrillo and proposes that following utopian ideas can provide with a renewed interpretation of the music and Mexican composers rhetoric.