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A gem from my research today, this time from an article in Early Music about the, well, early music movement. The author here, Michael Morrow, critiques the assumption that we can ever hope to recreate an authentic early music performance- the techniques of performance can't be learned from books, but must rather be passed on and taught by demonstration. Which, obviously, is never going to happen.
But here's the part that made me giggle:
"Even provided one had exact evidence of lost vocal styles, one would need first to convince the singers (no mean task), instruct them and then educate the audience. For there are two things most audiences and all music critics abhor: non-conventional singing and non-conventional violin-playing. With crumhorns, of course, anything goes."
*snicker*
But here's the part that made me giggle:
"Even provided one had exact evidence of lost vocal styles, one would need first to convince the singers (no mean task), instruct them and then educate the audience. For there are two things most audiences and all music critics abhor: non-conventional singing and non-conventional violin-playing. With crumhorns, of course, anything goes."
*snicker*