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History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music.(Book Review)
History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music. By Peter Walls. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. [xiv, 184 p. ISBN 1-84383-005-1. $70.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Until twenty or so years ago, many traditional performers and musicologists viewed performance practice (a.k.a. Historically Informed Performance or HIP) with suspicion, despite its official designation as one of musicology's subspecialties. Recently the gap between the two camps has begun to narrow, partly due to the realization that the "authenticity police" do not represent mainstream HIPsters, but also in some measure as a result of recent works by well respected ...
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0415941393 Performance practice; a dictionary-guide for musicians. Jackson, Roland...performers, and scholars, this alphabetical reference to performance practice gives information on the historical performance of instruments...
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