The question of methodological relativism in epistemology illustrates one of the most serious problems in music-related research, namely the reduction of the cognitive relation to music to the purely scientific characteristics of its elements, particularly to those of the natural sciences. If musicological rationality is a form of cognitive relation that, on the one hand, remains grounded in musical experience and, on the other, stands in relation to epistemology and the sciences, the following question arises:

How can musicological rationality remain knowledge of music through musical experience without turning into knowledge of abstract objects through scientific method?

In other words, how can we avoid the methodological relativism of scientific investigation and remain guided by music itself?