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"The End Of Early Music: A Period Performer's History Of Music For The Twenty-First Century" By Bruce Haynes, Roland Jackson
"The End Of Early Music: A Period Performer's History Of Music For The Twenty-First Century" By Bruce Haynes, Roland Jackson
Performance Practice Review
Jackson critiques and discusses Haynes' book on the history of early music performance.
"Attractively Packaged But Unripe Fruit"; The Uk's Commercialization Of Musical History In The 1980s, Colin Lawson
"Attractively Packaged But Unripe Fruit"; The Uk's Commercialization Of Musical History In The 1980s, Colin Lawson
Performance Practice Review
The decade from 1980 proved to be truly significant in the development of historical performance, as recreations of post-Baroque repertory gradually became the norm. At its close, three complete cycles of Beethoven Symphonies had been recorded on “period” instruments, implicitly demonstrating the complexity of the spectrum between practical expediency and historical accuracy. By 1991, Clive Brown was issuing a timely warning that the pedigree of many of the instruments on these recordings was of doubtful authenticity. The commercially-motivated rush to push period-instrument performance ever more rapidly into the nineteenth century did not offer much hope for the consolidation of historical …
Consequentialism About Historical Authenticity, Aron Edidin
Consequentialism About Historical Authenticity, Aron Edidin
Performance Practice Review
The historical authenticity movement arrived on a wave of polemical prose, and was met by a similarly energetic polemical response. The controversy has persisted to the present day.