Playing with History
The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
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Part of Musical Performance and Reception
- Author: John Butt, University of Glasgow
- Date Published: June 2002
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521813525
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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.
Read more- A polemical discussion of the 'early music debate'
- A seminal study from one of the most informed scholar-performers in the field
- Butt's previous books for Cambridge have been among the best-selling in the music list
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"The author's purview comprehends philosophy, literature, and architecture, and the whole is clear and nonpolemical. Highly recommended." Choice
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- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521813525
- length: 282 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. Historically Informed Performance in Music Criticism:
1. Joining the historical performance debate
Part II. Historically Informed Performance and the Implications for Work, Composer and Notation:
2. Historical performance and 'truth to the work': history and the subversion of Platonism
3. Historical performance and 'truth to the composer': rehabilitating intention
4. Negotiating between work, composer and performer: rewriting the story of notational progress
Part III. Historically Informed Performance within the Culture of the Late Twentieth Century:
5. Historical performance at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism
6. 'A reactionary wolf in countercultural sheep's clothing?' - historical performance, the heritage Industry and the politics of revival
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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