Playing with History
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 02 December 2009
- 30 May 2002
- ISBN:
- 9780511613555
- 9780521813525
- 9780521013581
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.59kg, 282 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.4kg, 284 Pages
- Subjects:
- Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
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Book description
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, 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 of the movement, while claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. He also asks whether the phenomenon of historically informed performance reflects changes in the culture of western music and how it, in turn, may have influenced that culture, particularly in regard to such issues as the status of the composer, the work, intentionality and notation.
Reviews
'Playing with History carries with it the strength of a seminal work.'
Source: Classical Music
‘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 this thorough yet economical discussion of these important contemporary issues.’
Source: The Strad
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