Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance (Musical Performance and Reception)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
PART 1 Historically informed performance in music criticism......Page 19
HINDEMITH AND ADORNO, AND SOME PRELIMINARY ANTINOMIES OF HIP......Page 21
THE HIP CULTURE OF THE 1980S – THE DIAGNOSES OF LAURENCE DREYFUS AND ROBERT MORGAN......Page 25
RICHARD TARUSKIN AND THE PUBLIC EXPANSION OF THE EARLY MUSIC DEBATE......Page 32
PETER KIVY AND THE DEBATE WITHIN ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 42
THE DEBATE AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 55
PART 2 Historically informed performance and the implications for work, composer and notation......Page 69
2 Historical performance and ‘truth to the work’: history and the subversion of Platonism......Page 71
3 Historical performance and ‘truth to the composer’: rehabilitating intention......Page 92
4 Negotiating between work, composer and performer: rewriting the story of notational progress......Page 114
NOTATION AS PURPOSELY INCOMPLETE......Page 124
NOTATION AS ‘FITTED SUIT’......Page 125
NOTATION AS EXAMPLE......Page 127
NOTATION AS A RECORD OF PERFORMING TRADITION; NOTATION AS DESCRIPTION......Page 132
NOTATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE EMBODIMENT OF MUSIC......Page 135
PART 3 Historically informed performance within the culture of the late twentieth century......Page 141
5 Historical performance at the crossroads of modernis and postmodernism......Page 143
DEFINING MODERNISM......Page 149
MODERNIST CONCEPTIONS OF HISTORY......Page 151
FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN......Page 163
DEFINING THE POSTMODERN......Page 165
THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AND THE SIMULACRUM......Page 173
POSTMODERNISM AND THE LOSS OF HISTORICITY......Page 176
HIP AS A EUROPEAN PHENOMENON......Page 181
6 ‘A reactionary wolf in countercultural sheep’s clothing’? – historica performance, the heritage industry and the…......Page 183
THE GROWTH OF THE HERITAGE MOVEMENTS......Page 189
HERITAGE A CULTURAL DECLINE AND PESSIMISM......Page 201
HERITAGE AS BAD HISTORY......Page 210
HERITAGE A REACTIONARY POLITICS......Page 221
1 JOINING THE HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE DEBATE......Page 236
2 HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AND ‘TRUTH TO THE WORK’: HISTORY AND THE SUBVERSION OF PLATONISM......Page 241
3 HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AND ‘TRUTH TO THE COMPOSER’: REHABILITATING INTENTION......Page 243
4 NEGOTIATING BETWEEN WORK, COMPOSER AND PERFORMER: REWRITING THE STORY OF NOTATIONAL PROGRESS......Page 247
5 HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AT THE CROSSROADS OF MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM......Page 251
6 ‘A REACTIONARY WOLF IN COUNTERCULTURAL SHEEP’S CLOTHING?’ – HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE, THE HERITAGE INDUSTRY AND THE…......Page 254
Bibliography......Page 261
Index......Page 271