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Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance (Musical Performance and Reception)
John Butt
Hardcover. Cambridge University Press 2002-06.
ISBN 9780521813525
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Publisher description
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style?
Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In the most ambitious study of
the topic to date, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early
music movement and historically informed performance, 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
of the movement, while claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and
artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. He also asks whether
the phenomenon of historically informed performance reflects changes in the
culture of western music and how it, in turn, may have influenced that culture,
particularly in regard to such issues as the status of the composer, the work,
intentionality and notation. This study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically
informed musical performance.
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