Text and Act : Essays on Music and Performance.
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 whic...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Author's Note; INTRODUCTION; Last Thoughts First: Wherein the Author Gently Replies to a Few of His Critics and Takes Tender Leave of the Topic; How Works Work; IN THEORY; 1: On Letting the Music Speak for Itself; Postscript, 1994; 2: The Limits of Authenticity: A Contribution; Postscript, 1994; 3: Down with the Fence; 4: The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past; I; II; III; IV; 5: What-or Where-Is the Original?; 6: The Modern Sound of Early Music; 7: Tradition and Authority; IN PRACTICE; BEETHOVEN; 8: The New Antiquity; II.