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The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the twenty-first century /

Title:
The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the twenty-first century /
Author:
Haynes, Bruce, 1942-2011.
Published:
Oxford ; New York : 2007.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Performing styles. When you say something differently, you say something different ; Mind the gap : current styles ; Mainstream style : "Chops, but no soul" -- How Romantic are we? Classical music's coarse caress ; The transparent performer ; Changing meanings, permanent symbols -- Anachronism and authenticity. Original ears ; Ways of coping with the past ; The medium is the message : period instruments -- What makes Baroque music "Baroque"? Baroque expression and Romantic expression compared ; The rainbow and the kaleidoscope : Romantic phrasing compared with the Baroque -- The end of "early" music. Passive and active musicking : stop staring and grow your own ; Perpetual revolution.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML457 .H38 2007 – Available