Art of Re-Enchantment: Making Early Music Work in the Modern Age

by Nick Wilson

In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old' music, while revolutionizing the classical music profession in the process. Yet the rise of Early Music has been anything but uncontroversial. Historically informed performance (HIP) has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199939934
• ISBN13: 9780199939930
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"