> I think there is still a huge amount of the 19th century in early music > performance today both in playing style, but even more in presentation. > Maybe one of the reasons that a lot of early musicians seem to eager to > perform romantic music is they feel more at home with the ethos of that > > time. There's a bundle of essays "Authenticity and Early Music", edited by Nicholas Kenyon (Oxford, 1988) with good contributions. The general point of many of the contributers seems to be there is a lot of 20th century in early music. Richard Taruskin makes a strong case for this in his article 'The Pastness of the Present'. Early music players play like non-motionaly involved Stawinsky, not like romantically inclined Landowska. David Hi, non-motional sounds like an illness and even worse than the romantic malady! As Stravinsky or Landowka are no longer with us I don't see them as a benchmark for performance from renaissance music. I prefer to look to the closest thing we have to a living serious musical culture - alternative rock music. All the best Mark
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