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Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France. By Katharine Ellis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [xii, 298 p. ISBN 0-19-517682-0. $60.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Anyone setting out to explore France and the French, whether from a historical perspective or in the present, will sooner or later come up against what we might term the three "P's" of Philosophy, Politics, and Paris. Each of these, either alone or in potent, inherently unstable combination, exerts its influence on a fourth "P," which is "Patriotism." It is thus not at all surprising to find all four "P's" playing their part in Katharine Ellis's fascinating ...
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...was awarded to John Wagstaff for his review of Katharine Ellis's Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). The review appeared in Notes 63, no. 2...
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