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Subject(s)

• Performance practice (Music) [Browse]
• Music—Performance [Browse]

Series

• Publications of the Early Music Institute [More in this series]
• Publications of the Early Music Institute. [More in this series]

Summary note

Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters-and limitations-of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance. Only by continual examination and reexamination of the sources to discover original intent can an early music practitioner come close to authentic performance.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• The underlying philosophy
• My way toward research
• The limits of notation
• The notation, its perception, and rendering
• Outlook
• Sources of inspiration.

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ISBN

0-253-01068-3

OCLC

854521702

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