The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the 21st century / Bruce Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Bruce, 1942-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance practice (Music)--History.

Performance practice (Music).

Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. Written for musicians and non-musicians alike.

Contents:

Contents; List of Recorded Excerpts; Introduction; Literacy; The Romantic Revolution; Canonism and Classicism; Progress or Adaptation; Serendipity; Musical Rhetoric; Authenticity as a Statement of Intent; "Scare-Quotes" for Authenticity; The End of Early Music; Musicking; Terminology and Concepts; PART I: Performing Styles; Chapter 1. When You Say Something Differently, You Say Something Different; "Style Is That Which Becomes Unstylish"; Innovation; Eating the Cookbook; Chronocentrism: "Music as Tradition"; The Rise of Pluralism: Matching Style to Period

Chapter 2. Mind the Gap Current Styles Three Abstractions: Romantic, Modern, and Period Styles; Romantic Style: An Absolute; Recordings That Document the Heart of Romantic Practice; Prophets of the Revolution: Dolmetsch and Landowska; The Authenticity Revolution of the 1960's; The Advent of Period Instruments and "Low Pitch": "Strange and Irregular Colors"; Chain Reaction; Guru Style: Rhetoric without the Name; Chapter 3. Mainstream Style "Chops, but No Soul"; Modernism and Modern Style; The Performance Practices of Romantic Style and Modern Style Compared; Vibrato, the MSG of Music

Children of Modernism Period Style Compared to Modern Style; Click-Track Baroque; Strait Style and Modernism; Strike Up the Bland: Strait Style Described; PART II: How Romantic Are We?; Chapter 4. Classical Music's Coarse Caress; The Musical Canon; Charles Burney and the Beginnings of Musical History; Why Did the Romantics Call Music "Classical"?; What Conservatories Conserve; Absolute Music (the Autonomy Principle); Pachelbel's Canon Becomes Canon; Originality and the Cult of Genius; Attribution and Designer Labels; Repeatability and Ritualized Performance

Chapter 5. The Transparent Performer Composer-Intention ("Fidelity to the Composer"); What Is a Piece of Music?; Werktreue (Work-Fidelity): The Musical Analogue of Religious Fundamentalism; The Urtext Imperative and Text Fetishism; Untouchability; The "Transparent" Performer and "Perfect Compliance"; The Romantic Invention of the Interpretive Conductor; The Maestro-Rehearsal; Chapter 6. Changing Meanings, Permanent Symbols; Changing Meanings, Permanent Symbols; Descriptive and Prescriptive Notation; The Incomplete Musical Score; Written Music's Oral Element

Writing Only the Essential in Rhetorical Music Implicit Notation; Strait Style and the Neutral "Run-Through"; Style versus Interpretation; "Saying Bach, Meaning Telemann": Composer-Intention before the Romantic Period; PART III: Anachronism and Authenticity; Chapter 7. Original Ears; Vintage Compared with Style; Seconda Pratica; Past Examples of Authenticity Movements; The Difference between an Art Fake and a Period Concert; How Historical Musicology and HIP Differ; Romantic and Baroque Audiences Compared; Period Musicians in Victorian Outfits; Chapter 8. Ways of Copying the Past

Emulation and Replication: Two Renaissance Approaches to Imitation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-988512-5

1-281-16278-7

9786611162788

1-4294-8617-1

0-19-804094-6

OCLC:

476245377