The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the twenty-first century / Bruce Haynes

By: Haynes, Bruce, 1942-2011Call number: 781.4 H424E 2007 Material type: BookBookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xix, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780195189872 :Subject(s): Performance practice (Music) -- History | Music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) -- Philosophy and aestheticsDDC classification: 781.4 H424E 2007 Online resources: ดูปกและสารบัญ (see cover and contents)
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index.

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.

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.

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