Offers a positive look at future possibilities for the successful early music revival movement
Provides a wider range of viewpoints from young to established performers, pedagogues, and academics who are based in the Americas, the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Australia
Includes a new essay by the late Jeremy Montagu
This collection about the early music movement will appeal to performers, teachers, academics, instrument makers, amateur musicians, and music lovers. With chapters about new ways to study, teach, perform, and listen to early music, there is something to appeal to everyone. The diverse group of authors--from young to established voices who live across the globe--offer positive, diverse, exciting, and challenging points of view about how the early music movement can go forward into the future.
Contents
Foreword: Polarization, Reintegration, and Diversity
Sir Nicholas Kenyon
1. Introduction
Mimi Mitchell
Part I: Methodological Viewpoints
2. Early Music: Views from Ethnomusicology
Caroline Bithell
3. Renewing Historical Performance through an Embodiment of Historical Acting Techniques
Jed Wentz
4. Historical Interpretation Research-New Sources and Methodologies
Kai Kopp
Part II: (Non) Historical Instruments
5. Making (Faking?) Early Music
Jeremy Montagu
6. Plastic Fantastic?
Fiona Brock, Andrew Hughes, and Jeremy Uden
7. Modern Versus Historical Instruments: International Bach Competition Leipzig
Mimi Mitchell
Part III: Pedagogical Perspectives
8. Professionalizing Historical Performance: The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Am-sterdam
Kailan Rubinoff
9. HIP for All or Specialized Training: Diverse Missions for Early Music in Higher Education
Kelly Landerkin and Claire Michon
10. Nows, Thens, and Truths: Attending to the Present in Performing the Past
Jonathan Impett
11. Towards a More Inclusive Early Music
Deanna Pellerano
Part IV: Transformative Technologies
12. Early Music and the Paradox of Technology
Alon Schab
13. Nutrition in an Age of Diet Soft Drinks: the Utopa Baroque Organ in Amsterdam
Hans Fidom
14. Developing Virtual Acoustic Systems for Use in Early Music Research
Eoin Callery and Jonathan Abel
Part V: Revisiting History
15. The New Dutch Recorder Sound of the 1960s
Robert Ehrlich
16. Early Music in the Latin Americas: An Alternative Scene
Melodie Michel
17. Remixes and Radical Revivals: Baroque Opera Production and the Opera Wars