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Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers

Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers

Sherman, Bernard D.

Paperback

Classical MusicMusic Instruction: GeneralMusic Reference

ISBN10: 019516945X
ISBN13: 9780195169454
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 9 2003
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.15 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's Top Classical Albums of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner, who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate long-lost performing styles? How important are historical period instruments for the performance of a piece? Why should musicians bother with historical information? Are they sacrificing art to scholarship?

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