Los sonidos de la civilidad en la Biblioteca Pública de Buenos Aires. La música en los libros sobre historia natural y literatura medicinal

In the absence of music criticism in Buenos Aires in the early years of the 19th century, we investigate the available knowledge and discourses on music that circulated among the Buenos Aires literate elite. In order to trace which books dealt with musical issues, the more than one thousand records in the book of income and donations of the Buenos Aires Public Library were analyzed. Between 1810 and 1824 only two books dealt with music theory while in the natural history and domestic medicine books music was used to criticize customs. A first glimpse was found to trace the circulation of social discourses that dealt with music as a critique of customs, in works that belonged to different literary genres