Early music in the 21st century / edited by Mimi Mitchell.
| Other author | Mitchell, Mimi. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2024. |
| Description | xix, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword. Polarization, Reintegration, and Diversity / Sir Nicholas Kenyon -- Introduction / Mimi Mitchell -- Part I. Methodological Viewpoints ; Early Music : Views from Ethnomusicology / Caroline Bithell ; Renewing Historical Performance through an Embodiment of Historical Acting Techniques / Jed Wentz ; Historical Interpretation Research-New Sources and Methodologies / Kai Köpp -- Part II. (Non) Historical Instruments. Making (Faking?) Early Music / Jeremy Montagu ; Plastic Fantastic? / Fiona Brock, Andrew Hughes, and Jeremy Uden ; Modern Versus Historical Instruments : International Bach Competition Leipzig / Mimi Mitchell -- |
| Contents | Part III. Pedagogical Perspectives. Professionalizing Historical Performance : The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Amsterdam / Kailan Rubinoff ; "HIP for All" or Specialized Training : Diverse Missions for Early Music in Higher Education / Kelly Landerkin and Claire Michon ; Nows, Thens, and Truths : Attending to the Present in Performing the Past / Jonathan Impett ; Towards a More Inclusive Early Music / Deanna Pellerano -- Part IV. Transformative Technologies. Early Music and the Paradox of Technology / Alon Schab ; "Nutrition in an Age of Diet Soft Drinks": the Utopa Baroque Organ in Amsterdam / Hans Fidom ; Developing Virtual Acoustic Systems for Use in Early Music Research / Eoin Callery and Jonathan Abel -- Part V. Revisiting History. The New Dutch Recorder Sound of the 1960s / Robert Ehrlich ; Early Music in the Latin Americas : An Alternative Scene / Melodie Michel ; Remixes and Radical Revivals : Baroque Opera Production and the Opera Wars / Caitlin Vincent. |
| Abstract | "It is time to reimagine the early music movement. Ever since its inception, the movement has been chronicled, analyzed, supported, and criticized by an array of journalists, philosophers, musicologists, and performers. Now that historically informed performance is firmly established in the Western classical music landscape, it is imperative to consider what we would like our future to be. What are our hopes for this new century? Although many "re"-prefix words are used when discussing how the movement should go forward-we need to rethink, reevaluate, revive, reinvigorate, and reboot-many of them have a slightly negative undertone. There are, of course, things that are problematic in the movement, and it is important to voice and confront these concerns. The term "early music" is itself debatable. Once a clear defining marker of the movement's repertoire, "early music" now feels too limited for a field that explores nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. More contemporary terminology, such as "historically informed," is equally problematic. As one modern player remarked, "What am I, historically uninformed?" With all its baggage and inadequacies, "early music" is still the term used to describe the movement's specialist journals, festivals, music departments, and concert series. Perhaps we will find something more appropriate in the twenty-first century? This volume introduces new ways to research and think about early music, addresses various performative issues, offers pedagogical possibilities and new technological tools, and-perhaps most importantly in this new century-suggests ways we can engage with the present as well as with the past. These essays present a number of possible positive directions for the future, while simultaneously addressing the things we'd like to change"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024032943 |
| ISBN | 9780197683071 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780197683064 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |