Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed
style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this
challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the
early music movement, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of
ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary
theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He
develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors, claiming
ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its
detractors may have assumed.
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