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    The Art of Re-enchantment by Wilson, Nick;

    Making Early Music in the Modern Age

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 5 December 2013

    • ISBN 9780199939930
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 168x242x25 mm
    • Weight 594 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 illus., 6 tables
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    Short description:

    Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. In The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, author Nick Wilson answers many salient questions surrounding HIP through an in-depth analysis of the early music movement in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.

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    In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old' music, while revolutionizing the classical music profession in the process. Yet the rise of Early Music has been anything but uncontroversial. Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. Did HIP's scholar-performers possess the skills necessary to achieve their uncompromising agenda? Was interest in historically informed performance just another facet of the burgeoning heritage industry? And was the widespread promotion of early music simply a commercial ruse to make money put forward by profit-driven record companies?

    In The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, author Nick Wilson answers these and other questions through an in-depth analysis of the early music movement in Britain from the 1960s to the present day. While other books have examined the history of early music's revival, this interdisciplinary study is unique in its focus on how various constituencies actually made their living from the early music business. Through chapters discussing the professionalization of early music, the influence of institutions such as the BBC and record companies, and the entrepreneurial role of leading early music pioneers, this book will shed new light on one of the most fascinating and influential movements in 20th Century art music.

    The Art of Re-enchantment begins a much-needed conversation about the true value of art and authenticity today. This volume is a must have for early music fans and performers, music historians and musicologists with an interest in performance practice, and anyone interested in the production, distribution and consumption of music.

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    Table of Contents:

    Table of Contents
    Preface i-viii
    Acknowledgements ix-xii
    Table of Contents xiii-xiv
    Part I: Making Early Music
    Chapter 1: Introduction 1-31
    Chapter 2: Seven Ages of Early Music 32-61
    Chapter 3: Transcending Text & Act? 62-94
    Part II: Making Early Music Work
    Chapter 4: A Tale of Two Authenticities 95-127
    Chapter 5: Shake Rattle and Roll 128-157
    Chapter 6: Holding History in Their Hands 158-188
    Early Music in Early Music (illustrations)
    Part III: Making Early Music Pay
    Chapter 7: Spinning Out Early Music 189-221
    Chapter 8: Jumping On the Old Band Wagon? 222-252
    Chapter 9: Everything To Play For 253-282
    Part IV: Making Early Music In the Modern Age
    Chapter 10: The Thief Who Came To Dinner 283-314
    Chapter 11: The Ineluctable Ore of the Authentic 315-346
    Chapter 12: The Art of Re-enchantment 347-377
    Appendix A Timeline of Western Classical Music 378
    Notes
    References 379-410
    Index

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