Music, History & Criticism

Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance

Name: Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
Author: John Butt
ISBN: 9780521013581

by John Butt, Butt John

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Synopsis

This challenging study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.

About the Author, John Butt

John Butt is the Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow, having previously been a lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of Bach Interpretation (1990), Bach: Mass in B Minor (1991), Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque(1994) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also a highly acclaimed harpsichordist and organist and has recorded 10 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, France.