The end of early music : a period performer's history of music for the twenty-first century / Bruce Haynes.

Author: Haynes, Bruce, 1942-2011.

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Descriptionxix, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:pt. 1. Performing styles. When you say something differently, you say something different ; Mind the gap : current styles ; Mainstream style : chops, but no soul -- pt. 2. How romantic are we? Classical music's coarse caress ; The transparent performer ; Changing meanings, permanent symbols -- pt. 3. Anachronism and authenticity. Original ears ; Ways of coping with the past ; The medium is the message : period instruments -- pt. 4. On elocution and pronunciation. Baroque oratory compared with romantic autobiography ; Gestural phrasing -- pt. 5. The end of early music. Passive and active musicking : stop staring and grow your own ; Mainstream music as early music ; Perpetual revolution.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index.

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