Beschreibung:
This book attempts for the first time to explore the thinking behind the search for so-called authenticity in musical performance, and to question some of the received opinions about its worth and purpose.
Authenticity and early music - some issues and questions, Nicholas Kenyon; fashion, conviction and performance style in an age of revivals, Will Crutchfield; pedantry or liberation? - a sketch of the Historical Performance Movement, Howard Mayer Brown; tradition, anxiety and the current musical scene, Robert P. Morgan; text, context and the early music editor, Philip Brett; the historian, the performer, and authentic meaning in music, Gary Tomlinson; the pastness of the present and the presence of the past, Richard Taruskin.