Books in the The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice series

Brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of the concert repertoire. In so doing, this title provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship.

Beginning with a 1915 Saint-Saens lecture on the performance of old music, this title sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s.