[Part] I : Medieval music, plainchant, and "otherness" -- A different sense of time : Marcel Pérès on Plainchant -- You can't sing a footnote : Susan Hellaues on performing medieval music -- Vox feminae : Barbara Thornton on Hildegard of Bingen -- The colonizing ear : Christopher Page on medieval music -- [Part] II : The Renaissance, Oxbridge, and Italy -- There is no such thing as a norm : Paul Hiller on renaissance sacred music -- Other kinds of beauty : Peter Phillips on the Tallis scholars and Palestrina -- Singing like a native : Alan Curtis, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Anthony Rooley on Monteverdi -- Emotional logic : Andrew Lawrence-King on renaissance instrumental music and improvisation -- [Part] III : The Baroque -- Consistent inconsistencies : John Butt on Bach -- "One should not make a rule" : Gustav Leonhardt on baroque keyboard playing -- Aladdin's lamp : Anner Bylsma on the cello (and Vivaldi, and Brahms) -- Beyond the beautiful pearl : Julianne Baird on baroque singing -- You can never be right for all time : Nicholas McGegan on Handel -- At home with the idiom : William Christie on the French baroque -- Triple counterpoint : Jeffrey Thomas, Philippe Herreweghe and John Butt on singing Bach -- [Part] IV : Classical and Romantic -- Restoring ingredients : Malcolm Bilson on the fortepiano -- Speaking Mozart's lingo : Robert Levin on Mozart and improvisation -- Taking music off the pedestal : Roger Norrington on Beethoven -- Reviving idiosyncrasies : John Eliot Gardiner on Berlioz and Brahms -- Reinventing wheels : Joshua Rifkin on interpreration and rhetoric
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Twenty-three musicians and conductors discuss the early music movement, in which music is played with the styles and instruments used when the piece was originally written and performed. "Each interview [focuses] on particular composers or styles, touching on heated topics such as how historical evidence should be used, why period instruments might matter, and what 'authenticity' is."--Jacket