Playing with History
The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
- Author: Butt, John
Few are better qualified than Butt to tackle this subject. His book is stimulating, thought provoking, rounded and readable ... music students of all denominations should be encouraged to red... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I . Historically Informed Performance in Music Criticism:
- 1. Joining the historical performance debate
- Part II . Historically Informed Performance and the Implications for Work, Composer and Notation:
- 2. Historical performance and 'truth to the work': history and the subversion of Platonism
- 3. Historical performance and 'truth to the composer': rehabilitating intention
- 4. Negotiating between work, composer and performer: rewriting the story of notational progress
- Part III . Historically Informed Performance within the Culture of the Late Twentieth Century:
- 5. Historical performance at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism
- 6. 'A reactionary wolf in countercultural sheep's clothing?' - historical performance, the heritage Industry and the politics of revival
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
