Historically Informed Performance: On Taking Refuge in the Past and the Myth of Authenticity
Keywords:
Early music, Baroque instruments, musical performance trendsAbstract
Historically informed performance has a stable, enthusiastic audience and has offered impulses to redefine and reconsider theories on musical performance in general. If we have already gotten accustomed to the sound of an ensemble of baroque instruments, as well as with an interpretative manner that tries to reproduce the practices of the time when the respective music was written, we are continuing to reflect on (at least) two fundamental problems: seeking refuge in the past and the claim to authenticity.
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