Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Richard Taruskin

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The word needs either to be rescued from its current purveyors or to be dropped by those who would aspire to the values it properly signifies. The attempt by many to recreate performances of the past as close as possible to the original. Worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact. b. True to one"s own personality, spirit, or character. Letters, notes, old recordings, reviews, treatises, performance conventions passed on. However, time creates distance between now and the past eg. interpretation, language barriers. Should we recreate the imperfections of the performance? eg. better musicians now than many years ago. Beethoven could not realize the ideal orchestration because he was deaf. He did the best we could, but we have perfected the problems, therefore we should change them, because this is what beethoven would have want.

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