The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the twenty-first century /
Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. Written for mu...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Performing styles. When you say something differently, you say something different ; Mind the gap : current styles ; Mainstream style : chops, but no soul
- pt. 2. How romantic are we? Classical music's coarse caress ; The transparent performer ; Changing meanings, permanent symbols
- pt. 3. Anachronism and authenticity. Original ears ; Ways of coping with the past ; The medium is the message : period instruments
- pt. 4. On elocution and pronunciation. Baroque oratory compared with romantic autobiography ; Gestural phrasing
- pt. 5. The end of early music. Passive and active musicking : stop staring and grow your own ; Mainstream music as early music ; Perpetual revolution.