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Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)

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By James Garratt. (Musical Performance and Reception.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xiv, 318 p. ISBN 0-521-80737-9. $70.] Music examples, bibliography, index.

For many years, scholars customarily outlined the history of music using a scheme that would be more appropriate for the history of technology. In this interpretation, history is made chiefly by brilliant innovators who fearlessly defy conventional wisdom and invent something new. The critics and pedagogues scoff at the unfamiliar technique, but eventually they are forced to concede defeat. When they finally enshrine the innovator in their pantheon and the novel procedures in their ...

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