The Notation Is Not The Music Reflections On Early Music Practice And Performance
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780253010605
Description: Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters--and limitations--of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance. Only by continual examination and reexamination of the sources to discover original intent can an early music practitioner come close to authentic performance [Publisher description]