Text and Act Essays on Music and Performance

Name: Text and Act Essays on Music and Performance
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ISBN: 9780195094589

ISBN-10: 0195094581

ISBN-13: 9780195094589

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Taruskin

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Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient traditions, in fact represents the only truly modern style of performance being offered today. He goes on to contend that the movement is therefore far more valuable and even authentic than the historical verisimilitude for which it ostensibly strives could ever be. These essays cast fresh light on many…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction


In Theory



On Letting the Music Speak for Itself



The Limits of Authenticity: A Contribution



Down with the Fence



The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past



What -- or Where -- is the Original?



The Modern Sound of Early Music



Tradition and Authority


In Practice



The New Antiquity



Resisting the Ninth



An Icon for Our Time



A Mozart Wholly Ours



Old (new) Instruments, New (old) Tempos



Backslide or Harbinger?



Facing Up, Finally, to Bach's Dark Vision



The Crooked Straight, and the Rough Places Plain



Report from Lincoln Center: The International Josquin Festival- Conference, 21-25 June 1971



The Price of Literacy, Or, Why We Need Musicology



High, Sweet, and Loud



Text and Act



Stravinsky Lite (even The Rite"""")""""


Index