| Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance Contributor(s): Butt, John (Author), John, Butt (Author), Butt, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521013585 ISBN-13: 9780521013581 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement, 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, claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.431 |
| LCCN: 2001043656 |
| Lexile Measure: 1660 |
| Series: Musical Performance and Reception |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.02" W x 8.92" (0.88 lbs) 284 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Butt, John: - John Butt is the Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow, having previously been a lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of Bach Interpretation (1990), Bach: Mass in B Minor (1991), Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (1994) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also a highly acclaimed harpsichordist and organist and has recorded 10 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, France. |