Ebook {Epub PDF} Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance by Richard Taruskin

 · Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient . 0 Reviews. Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most Edition: illustrated. Text Act is a collection of Taruskin's most important (or, at least, most inflammatory) essays and articles on the subject of authenticity in the performance of 18th- and 19th-century music. These are the pieces that got Taruskin a reputation for being a flame-thrower; many fans of what is now called HIP (historically informed performance) have gotten the idea that Taruskin is the enemy of everything HIP /5(16).

Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which are now classics in the field. Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance de TARUSKIN sur www.doorway.ru - ISBN - ISBN - OUP USA - - Couverture souple. Taruskin ranges from theoretical speculation to practical criticism, and covers a repertory spanning from Bach to Stravinsky. Including a newly written introduction. Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance, Paperback by Taruskin, Richar.

Text and Act. Two different things. Taruskin's not bashing "HIP" as you are. He's bashing the repackaging of 20 th century practice (score-fidelity-worship, and the thin consideration of only small portions of evidence, i.e. some of the s and s pseudo-"HIP" practice) as if it were the best that HIP can offer. HIP, when done properly, goes far beyond that; and that's what he's challenging us all to expect and to demand, not settling for superficiality. Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from revivin. Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about early music and authenticity. Text Act is a collection of Taruskin's most important (or, at least, most inflammatory) essays and articles on the subject of authenticity in the performance of 18th- and 19th-century music. These are the pieces that got Taruskin a reputation for being a flame-thrower; many fans of what is now called HIP (historically informed performance) have gotten the idea that Taruskin is the enemy of everything HIP stands for.