Playing with history : the historical approach to musical performance /
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In the most ambitious study of the topic to date, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002
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| Series: | Musical performance and reception.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Historically informed performance in music criticism. Joining the historical performance debate
- Historically informed performance and the implications for work, composer and notation. Historical performance and 'truth to the work' : history and the subversion of Platonism
- Historical performance and 'truth to the composer' : rehabilitating intention
- Negotiating between work, composer and performer : rewriting the story of notational progress
- Historically informed performance within the culture of the late twentieth century. Historical performance at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism
- 'A reactionary wolf in countercultural sheep's clothing'? : historical performance, the heritage industry and the politics of revival.
