Consider the relationship between on the one hand, the aesthetic category and analytical arabesque and the other, the musical repertoire of the modern era in the sense of the term may sound historiographical something uncertain. The nature of the process allows the first question: the musicologist inspired by the methods of the historian is reluctant to carry out reflection time, as well as the manipulation of supposed universals of music. This uncertainty is even more evident when determining the method to follow: look for links between the arabesque and the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries may cause a glaring anachronism.