The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance (Publications of the Early Music Institute)

About this book

Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parametersand limitationsof notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance. Only by continual examination and reexamination of the sources to discover original intent can an early music practitioner come close to authentic performance.