I think the answer to this is absolutely not! I found the collection of essays entitled "Authenticity and early Music", edited by Nicholas Kenyon (OUP 1988, reprinted 2002) very illuminating on this issue. Will Crutchfield covers this very point, suggesting that consciousness of historical style is something that only really developed during the 20th century. Richard Taruskin makes the more radical point that 'historically informed performance' is, in fact, a modern style.
A book worth reading , even if only to disagree with some of it! Eric Crouch On 28 Oct 2005, at 09:58, gary digman wrote: > It occurs to me there may be a touch of irony in this concern with > being "historically correct", We're the artists whose aesthetic we > are trying to embody concerned about being historically correct? If > not, is not our concern for historical correctness unhistorical? > > Best to All, > Gary Digman > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
