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Playing with History
The Historical Approach to Musical Performance

Part of Musical Performance and Reception

Author: John Butt, University of Glasgow

Date Published: June 2002
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521013581

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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.
- 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: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521013581
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 153 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- 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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John Butt, University of Glasgow
John Butt is the Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow, having previously been a lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of Bach Interpretation (1990), Bach: Mass in B Minor (1991), Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (1994) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also a highly acclaimed harpsichordist and organist and has recorded 10 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, France.