History, Imagination and the Performance of Music

by Peter Walls

Both a defence of research aiming to recover how music sounded in the past and an argument for the application of such historical research to performance.

The legitimacy of applying historical research to musical performance has been much argued about in recent years. Those advocating historical authenticity have been attacked on philosophical, aesthetic, and even practical grounds.This book both defends the practical value of trying to determine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843830051
• ISBN13: 9781843830054
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"