In his book Music, Ideas, History: Texts 1990–2022 (in Finnish: Musiikki, aatteet, historia: Tekstejä 1990–2022), Matti Huttunen sheds light on the world of Western art music by showing how past historiographies of music have given it form and meaning. While grounded in Dahlhaus’ principles of structural history, Huttunen also challenges such models by allowing greater interpretive multidimensionality. He believes that by studying past writings about music, we can learn about music and ourselves, but his research also reflects a Nietzschean distance to one’s own time. In future accounts of Finnish musicology, Huttunen’s writings may provide a focus for a "long 20th century" of musical historiography.