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Kivy, Peter

 
9780801430466: Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance
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ISBN 10: 0801430461 ISBN 13: 9780801430466
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 1998

Sinopsis

How are we to assess the current popularity of period instruments and early-music performance? For musicians and audiences alike, the "historical authenticity" movement has increasingly influenced the performance of classical music. It has given us, claims Peter Kivy, "new and rewarding ways of listening to our musical reportory (as well as silly, vulgar, and unrewarding ones)." He believes that theory now overrules the ear in arguing for and justifying particular aesthetic decisions.

In his customary engaging style, Kivy here mounts a philosophical inquiry into the desirability of using or re-creating historical performance. "Authenticity has become so widely accepted," he writes, "that why it should be accepted has become an unasked, indeed a forgotten question among the converted." In "How to Be Authentic," the first section of his book, he examines four different kinds of authenticity; in the second part, "Why to Be Authentic," he suggests how to evaluate them. Discussing issues that he cares about passionately, Kivy provides ammunition for both camps―those who follow authentic performance practice and those who do not.

It is his hope that this book provides the groundwork for dialogue between mucisians and philosophers. "I look forward to that," he says, "and to being, when it comes, in the thick of things."

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Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His previous books include Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience, also from Cornell.

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The author mounts a philosophical inquiry into the desirability of using or re-creating historical practices in performance. It is his hope that his book provides the groundwork for dialogue between musicians and philosophers.

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How are we to assess the current popularity of period instruments and early-music performance? For musicians and audiences alike, the "historical authenticity" movement has increasingly influenced the performance of classical music. It has given us, claims Peter Kivy, "new and rewarding ways of listening to our musical repertory (as well as silly, vulgar, and unrewarding ones)". He believes that theory now overrules the ear in arguing for and justifying particular aesthetic decisions. In his customary engaging style, Kivy here mounts a philosophical inquiry into the desirability of using or re-creating historical practices in performance. In "How to Be Authentic", the first section of his book, he examines four different kinds of authenticity; in the second part, "Why to Be Authentic", he suggests how to evaluate them. Discussing issues that he cares about passionately, Kivy provides ammunition for both camps - those who follow authentic performance practice and those who do not. It is his hope that his book provides the groundwork for dialogue between musicians and philosophers.

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
1998
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ISBN 10 
0801430461
ISBN 13 
9780801430466
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Número de páginas
320
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Editorial: Cornell University Press, 1998
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