Text and ACT: Essays on Music and Performance Paperback - 1995
by Richard Taruskin
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Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity". Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which are now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the early music phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient traditions, in fact represents the only truly modern style of performance being offered today. He goes on to contend that the movement is therefore far more valuable - and even authentic - than simple historical verisimilitude could ever be. These essays cast fresh light on many aspects of contemporary music-making and music-thinking, mixing lighthearted debunking with impassioned argumentation. Taruskin moves fluently from theoretical speculation to practical criticism, and covers a repertory ranging from Josquin des Prez to Stravinsky.
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- Title Text and ACT: Essays on Music and Performance
- Author Richard Taruskin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-09-07
- ISBN 9780195094589 / 0195094581
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.11 x 6.06 x 1.08 in (23.14 x 15.39 x 2.74 cm)
- Reading level 1470
- Library of Congress subjects Style, Musical, Performance practice (Music)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94024903
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.43
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- Library Journal, 06/01/1995, Page 118
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