The early music revival : a history / Harry Haskell.
| Author/creator | Haskell, Harry |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Thames and Hudson, ©1988. |
| Description | 232 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 'The musical Pompeii". Mendelssohn's St Matthew Passion of 1829 ; Bach and other pre-Classical masters rediscovered ; Alexandre Choron's Institution Royale de Musique Religieuse ; Church music reform and the revival of Gregorian chant ; Franc̦ois-Joseph Fétis's historical concerts ; The rise of historical musicology ; Brahms and the nineteenth-century choral movement ; The revival of early musical instruments -- 'The apostle of retrogression'. Arnold Dolmetsch as instrument-maker, performer, scholar and teacher ; His predecessors and contemporaries in England ; The 1885 International Inventions Exposition in South Kensington ; Early music and the arts and crafts movement ; Richard Terry, Edmund Fellowes and 'Elizabethan fever' ; The Haslemere Festival ; Dolmetsch's inconsistency and eccentricity ; Other members of his family -- From Schola to Schola. The Schola Cantorum of Paris ; Charles Bordes and the Chanteurs de St. Gervais ; Two Sociétés d'Instruments Anciens ; Wanda Landowska and the harpsichord revival on the continent ; The Deutsche Vereinigung für alte Musik ; Collegium Musicum groups ; The organ revival, youth movement and singing movement ; Safford Cape's Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels ; The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis -- 'Back to Bach'. Modern composers rediscover early music ; Stravinsky, Hindemith, Busoni and others ; Neoclassicim, for and against ; Neue Sachlichkeit and anti-Romantic tendencies ; New music for historical instruments ; Forgeries, pastiches and misattributions ; The 'harpsichordized' piano, 'Bach' bow and other spuriosities ; Stokowski's Bach transcriptions ; Toscanini and the new Puritanism -- Old music in the New World. Boston's Handel and Haydn Society ; Theodore Thomas ; The Bethlehem Bach Choir ; The Musical Art Society of New York ; Sam Franko's orchestral concerts of old music ; Dolmetsch and Landowska in the United States ; The American Society of Ancient Instruments and Other Ensembles ; American instrument-makers ; The diaspora of European early musicians ; Hindemith's Collegium Musicum at Yale ; The New York Pro Musica -- 'To open wide the windows'. Early music in the mass media ; Recordings and broadcasts ; Some recorded anthologies ; The BBC's Third Programme ; The electronic media as patrons of early musicians ; Pre-Classical music in films, on television and in literature ; The post-war Vivaldi craze ; Jazz and popular treatments of early music -- |
| Contents | Staging a comeback. The Baroque opera revival ; Modern stagings of Rameau, Lully, Purcell, Monteverdi, Handel and others ; Germany's 'Handel renaissance' ; Arrangements and updatings of early operas by Vincent d'Indy, Carl Orff, Luciano Berio and others ; Baroque dance and stagecraft resurrected ; Alfred Deller and the countertenor renaissance ; August Wenzinger, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Raymond Leppard, Alan Curtis, Nicholas McGegan and other scholar-conductors -- The early music subculture. Thurston Dart, Noah Greenberg and the post-war rapprochment of scholars and performers ; David Munrow and Gustav Leonhardt contrasted ; Their continuing influence ; The amateur factor in the recent early music 'boom' ; Early music in Japan, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Scandinavia and elsewhere ; Steadily rising performance standards ; Early music and the post-war avant-garde -- Play Bach 'his way'. The pursuit of 'authenticity' ; Work-fidelity and growing interest in historical performance practices ; Importance of style and sonority in music ; 'Subjective' and 'objective' modes of interpretation ; Adorno vs. Hindemith ; Instrumental fetishism and the neglect of historical singing styles ; Reactions against musicological 'positivism' ; Taste and imagination as components of authenticity -- Beethoven, Brahms and beyond? Classical and Romantic music on period instruments ; The fortepiano revival ; Historicist productions of Mozart and Rossini operas ; The proliferation of Baroque orchestra ; The confluence of early and mainstream music ; Its impact on concert programming, musical education, the recording industry, etc. ; Historical performance: the dominant musical ideology of our time. |
| Abstract | First comprehensive historical study of the early music revival, tracing its origins back to the 18th century. Mendelssohn's rediscovery of Bach's St. Matthew Passion; influence of Schola Cantorum; period instrument builders and manufacturers; influence of such performers as Wanda Landowska, Alfred Deller, others. Includes 46 illustrations. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 216-223. |
| LCCN | 88050072 |
| ISBN | 0500014493 |
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