The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Haynes, Bruce
Bruce's arguments are rich, not obvious, and very convincing. Read Bruce's ideas: applaud, question, be infuriated. But you will never think about early music as you did before —
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Contents
- List of Musical Examples List of Recorded Excerpts
- Preface If this Muses Come to Call
- Acknowledgements
- Part I : Performing Styles One: Performing Style: When You Say Something Differently, You Say Something Different Two: Mind the Gap: Current Styles Three: Mainstream Style: "Chops, but no Soul"
- Part II : How Romantic Are We? Four: Classical Music's Coarse Caress Five: The Transparent Performer Six: Changing Meanings, Permanent Symbols
- Part III : Anachronism and Authenticity Seven: Original Ears Eight: Ways of Copying the Past Nine: The Medium is the Message: Period Instruments Ten: Baroque Oratory Compared with Romantic Autobiography Eleven: Gestural Phrasing
- Part V : The End of "Early" Music Twelve: Passive and Active Musicking: Stop Staring and Grow Your Own Thirteen: Mainstream Musicking as "Early Music" Fourteen: Perpetual Revolution Notes List of Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
