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Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
Richard Taruskin
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Description for Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
Paperback. This collection of essays and reviews offers an evaluation of the early music movement, in an attempt to transform the debate about "early music" and "authenticity". Num Pages: 392 pages, numerous music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC1; AVS; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616.
Gathers together for the first time Taruskin's influential and insightful essays and articles on musical performance practice written over the past decade. Links issues in musical performance with wider cultural scene. Author's highly respected and controversial viewpoints and reputation will spark intellectual debate in the musical field. Text and Act, a collection of essays and reviews, published over the last dozen years, offers a brilliant evaluation of the early music movement, transforming the debate about early music and authenticity . Demolishing the argument that the movement to revive period instruments and ... Read more
Gathers together for the first time Taruskin's influential and insightful essays and articles on musical performance practice written over the past decade. Links issues in musical performance with wider cultural scene. Author's highly respected and controversial viewpoints and reputation will spark intellectual debate in the musical field. Text and Act, a collection of essays and reviews, published over the last dozen years, offers a brilliant evaluation of the early music movement, transforming the debate about early music and authenticity . Demolishing the argument that the movement to revive period instruments and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
591g
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195094589
SKU
V9780195094589
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
Another one from Taruskin, 'the most devastatingly acute of the growing band of critics and philosophers who question the whole idea of authentic practice. A splendid and heartening book'
BBC Music Magazine
...the most devastingly acute of the growing band of critics and philosophers who question the whole idea of authentic performance practice. Taruskin has been engaged in ... Read more
BBC Music Magazine
...the most devastingly acute of the growing band of critics and philosophers who question the whole idea of authentic performance practice. Taruskin has been engaged in ... Read more