
Playing with history: the historical approach to musical performance (Musical performance and reception)
Music
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Summary
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance,… calling upon ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. 2002.