Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors, claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed.
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Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors, claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed.
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Some of the parameters of the debate over historical performance were set many years before the movement became a truly public phenomenon in the late 1960s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early music debate, historicist performance, early music movement, existential historicism, heritage phenomenon, passive intentions, performance directives, notated composition, performance markings, heritage movement, informed performance, musica ficta, heritage industry, historical performance, inferential approach, creative context, authentic performance, musical works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Henry James, Richard Taruskin, The Heritage Crusade, World War, After the End, Arnold Dolmetsch, Roger Scruton, The Post-Modern, Modernist Poetics of History, The Prince of Wales, French Revolution, Gustav Leonhardt, Karol Berger, Middle Ages, Peter Kivy, English Culture, National Trust, Notre Dame, Patterns of Intention, Rationalizing Culture, Second Viennese School, The Glass Bead Game, Brian Ferneyhough, Kay Shelemay New!
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Some of the parameters of the debate over historical performance were set many years before the movement became a truly public phenomenon in the late 1960s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early music debate, historicist performance, early music movement, existential historicism, heritage phenomenon, passive intentions, performance directives, notated composition, performance markings, heritage movement, informed performance, musica ficta, heritage industry, historical performance, inferential approach, creative context, authentic performance, musical works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Henry James, Richard Taruskin, The Heritage Crusade, World War, After the End, Arnold Dolmetsch, Roger Scruton, The Post-Modern, Modernist Poetics of History, The Prince of Wales, French Revolution, Gustav Leonhardt, Karol Berger, Middle Ages, Peter Kivy, English Culture, National Trust, Notre Dame, Patterns of Intention, Rationalizing Culture, Second Viennese School, The Glass Bead Game, Brian Ferneyhough, Kay Shelemay New!
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- Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance by Richard Taruskin on 14 pages
- The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse on 10 pages
- After the End of Art by Arthur C. Danto on 8 pages
- Rethinking Music by Nick Cook on 8 pages
- The Sense of the Past by Henry James on 7 pages
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- Dance, Desire, And Anxiety in Early Twentieth-century French Theater: Playing Identities by Charles R. Batson on page 248, and Back Matter
- Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Musical Performance and Reception) by James Garratt in Front Matter
- Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Musical Performance and Reception) by John Haines in Front Matter
- Hearing Bach's Passions by Daniel R. Melamed in Back Matter
- The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance (Musical Performance and Reception) by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson in Front Matter
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