The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-Fir

Description: The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Haynes Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. Written formusicians and non-musicians alike. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A Period Performers History of Music for the Twenty-First Century. Author Biography Recently retired as a performer, Bruce Haynes worked for many years in Holland. He introduced the hautboy into the Dutch music curriculum, teaching at the Royal Conservatory. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal. He has published widely on the history of the oboe and performing pitch standards. Table of Contents List of Musical ExamplesList of Recorded ExcerptsPreface: If this Muses Come to CallAcknowledgementsPart I: Performing StylesOne: Performing Style: When You Say Something Differently, You Say Something DifferentTwo: Mind the Gap: Current StylesThree: Mainstream Style: "Chops, but no Soul"Part II: How Romantic Are We?Four: Classical Musics Coarse CaressFive: The Transparent PerformerSix: Changing Meanings, Permanent SymbolsPart III: Anachronism and AuthenticitySeven: Original EarsEight: Ways of Copying the PastNine: The Medium is the Message: Period InstrumentsTen: Baroque Oratory Compared with Romantic AutobiographyEleven: Gestural PhrasingPart V: The End of "Early" MusicTwelve: Passive and Active Musicking: Stop Staring and Grow Your OwnThirteen: Mainstream Musicking as "Early Music"Fourteen: Perpetual RevolutionNotesList of Bibliographic AbbreviationsBibliographyIndex Review Haynes always writes as the insider performer, and his writing is fresh and direct...likely to be enjoyed by most musicians. David Ledbetter, British Clavichord Society Bruces arguments are rich, not obvious, and very convincing. Read Bruces ideas: applaud, question, be infuriated. But you will never think about early music as you did before. Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review Long Description Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devils advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. Review Text "Wide-ranging in its reference and powerful in its invigorating view of the "end" of early music. Haynes informative text urges us onward with historical acumen, a performers keen insight, and even more than a dollop of whimsy and wit. This is an End that we should hasten to begin."--Historic Brass Society Journal"This is a thoughtful, entertaining, and important book by an expert who can write for both lay and professional readers."--J.P. Ambrose, CHOICE"The End of Early Music is a must-read for anyone interested in the early music movement. Haynes goes on to urge all performers of rhetorical music to engage in more improvisation and personalization in their performances."-Maria Coldwell, Early Music America"A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining volume which has already been the source of a great deal of lively discussion among Early Music cognoscenti. It should be on the shelf of everyone concerned with Early Music, be as it performer, director, researcher or listener. It belongs as well in the library of every institution with an Early Music program. It is as timely a book as there could be on the subject in this day andage, and, as such, much needed and very welcome."-iThe Double Reed"Haynes provides an invaluable service by framing the issue of performance style in clearly defined terms that set the parameters for the broader discussion that must occur if classical music is to maintain, or as some would say, regain its stature as a relevant artistic force.... While The End of Early Music is subtitles A Period Performers History of Music for the Twenty-First Century, it should be read by any and al intereste in ourmusical past, present, or future."--David Dolata, MLA Notes"Early Music (with its off-putting "scare-quotes") is dead; long live early music! Reading the mature reflections of one of the Early Music Movements important revolutionaries about the panorama of performing styles in todays musical world is both a pleasure and a challenge. Mr. Hayness breadth and depth of learning and observation is admirable, but more important is his clear-minded yet passionate formulation of an artistic vision of creativemusicianship for our time."--Stephen Stubbs, Northwest Center for Early Music Studies"From one of the brightest lights in the field of baroque music comes yet another indispensable book. Only Haynes, a performer of great sensitivity and dedication to the project of historical performance, only Haynes, a scholar of alacrity and dynamism, only Haynes, who for over thirty years has never stopped interrogating what we are doing when we approach the past in performance, only Haynes could have written a brilliant book for early music inthe new millennium. It is thoughtful, iconoclastic, tender, and honest. This is the new Quantz-obligatory reading for everyone who cares about early music."--Kate van Orden, performer on historical instruments and Professor, University of California, Berkeley"Haynes has made a series of subtle and important points for all listeners, musicians, all artists and potentially all art in fact, very well.... If you have anything but the most casual interest in music before 1800 and its most proper and effective performance, then this readable and well-argued book, which has a great balance of technical and non-technical illustrations for the practicing musician and listener alike, should not be ignored. Thoroughlyrecommended."--Mark Sealey, Classical Net"Hayness book...will be useful to students of historical performance practice and instructors of courses on that topic, not only for its extensive quotations and audio samples but for its lively, provocative style." --Journal of the American Musicological Society Review Quote "Wide-ranging in its reference and powerful in its invigorating view of the "end" of early music. Haynes informative text urges us onward with historical acumen, a performers keen insight, and even more than a dollop of whimsy and wit. This is an End that we should hasten to begin."--Historic Brass Society Journal "This is a thoughtful, entertaining, and important book by an expert who can write for both lay and professional readers."--J.P. Ambrose, CHOICE "The End of Early Music is a must-read for anyone interested in the early music movement. Haynes goes on to urge all performers of rhetorical music to engage in more improvisation and personalization in their performances."-Maria Coldwell, Early Music America "A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining volume which has already been the source of a great deal of lively discussion among Early Music cognoscenti. It should be on the shelf of everyone concerned with Early Music, be as it performer, director, researcher or listener. It belongs as well in the library of every institution with an Early Music program. It is as timely a book as there could be on the subject in this day and age, and, as such, much needed and very welcome."-iThe Double Reed "Haynes provides an invaluable service by framing the issue of performance style in clearly defined terms that set the parameters for the broader discussion that must occur if classical music is to maintain, or as some would say, regain its stature as a relevant artistic force.... While The End of Early Music is subtitles A Period Performers History of Music for the Twenty-First Century, it should be read by any and al intereste in our musical past, present, or future."--David Dolata, MLA Notes "Early Music (with its off-putting "scare-quotes") is dead; long live early music! Reading the mature reflections of one of the Early Music Movements important revolutionaries about the panorama of performing styles in todays musical world is both a pleasure and a challenge. Mr. Hayness breadth and depth of learning and observation is admirable, but more important is his clear-minded yet passionate formulation of an artistic vision of creative musicianship for our time."--Stephen Stubbs, Northwest Center for Early Music Studies "From one of the brightest lights in the field of baroque music comes yet another indispensable book. Only Haynes, a performer of great sensitivity and dedication to the project of historical performance, only Haynes, a scholar of alacrity and dynamism, only Haynes, who for over thirty years has never stopped interrogating what we are doing when we approach the past in performance, only Haynes could have written a brilliant book for early music in the new millennium. It is thoughtful, iconoclastic, tender, and honest. This is the new Quantz-obligatory reading for everyone who cares about early music."--Kate van Orden, performer on historical instruments and Professor, University of California, Berkeley "Haynes has made a series of subtle and important points for all listeners, musicians, all artists and potentially all art in fact, very well.... If you have anything but the most casual interest in music before 1800 and its most proper and effective performance, then this readable and well-argued book, which has a great balance of technical and non-technical illustrations for the practicing musician and listener alike, should not be ignored. Thoroughly recommended."--Mark Sealey, Classical Net "Hayness book...will be useful to students of historical performance practice and instructors of courses on that topic, not only for its extensive quotations and audio samples but for its lively, provocative style." --Journal of the American Musicological Society Feature Selling point: Written for musicians and non-musicians alike Details ISBN0195189876 Author Bruce Haynes Short Title END OF EARLY MUSIC Pages 284 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Language English ISBN-10 0195189876 ISBN-13 9780195189872 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 781.430 Illustrations Yes Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-06-30 Audience General/Trade Position Associate Professor, Faculty of Music Subtitle A Period Performers History of Music for the Twenty-First Century Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Montreal DOI 10.1604/9780195189872 UK Release Date 2007-08-23 NZ Release Date 2007-08-23 US Release Date 2007-08-23 AU Release Date 2007-07-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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