Early Music in the 21st Century

This collection about the early music movement will appeal to performers, teachers, academics, instrument makers, amateur musicians, and music lovers. With chapters about new ways to study, teach, perform, and listen to early music, there is something to appeal to everyone. The diverse group of authors--from young to established voices who live across the globe--offer positive, diverse, exciting, and challenging points of view about how the early music movement can go forward into the future.

List of contents

• Foreword: Polarization, Reintegration, and Diversity


• Sir Nicholas Kenyon




• 1. Introduction


• Mimi Mitchell


• Part I: Methodological Viewpoints


• 2. Early Music: Views from Ethnomusicology


• Caroline Bithell


• 3. Renewing Historical Performance through an Embodiment of Historical Acting Techniques


• Jed Wentz


• 4. Historical Interpretation Research-New Sources and Methodologies


• Kai Köpp


• Part II: (Non) Historical Instruments


• 5. Making (Faking?) Early Music


• Jeremy Montagu


• 6. Plastic Fantastic?


• Fiona Brock, Andrew Hughes, and Jeremy Uden


• 7. Modern Versus Historical Instruments: International Bach Competition Leipzig


• Mimi Mitchell


• Part III: Pedagogical Perspectives


• 8. Professionalizing Historical Performance: The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Am-sterdam


• Kailan Rubinoff


• 9. "HIP for All" or Specialized Training: Diverse Missions for Early Music in Higher Education


• Kelly Landerkin and Claire Michon


• 10. Nows, Thens, and Truths: Attending to the Present in Performing the Past


• Jonathan Impett


• 11. Towards a More Inclusive Early Music


• Deanna Pellerano


• Part IV: Transformative Technologies


• 12. Early Music and the Paradox of Technology


• Alon Schab


• 13. "Nutrition in an Age of Diet Soft Drinks": the Utopa Baroque Organ in Amsterdam


• Hans Fidom


• 14. Developing Virtual Acoustic Systems for Use in Early Music Research


• Eoin Callery and Jonathan Abel


• Part V: Revisiting History


• 15.The New Dutch Recorder Sound of the 1960s


• Robert Ehrlich


• 16. Early Music in the Latin Americas: An Alternative Scene


• Melodie Michel


• 17. Remixes and Radical Revivals: Baroque Opera Production and the Opera Wars


• Caitlin Vincent


• Index

About the author

Mimi Mitchell enjoys a dual career as a musicologist and a historical violinist. She was co-curator of the symposium The Historical Violin (STIMU, Utrecht Early Music Festival, 2019) and curated the conference Early Music in the 21st Century (Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 2021). She contributed a chapter to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna's The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: The First 100 Years (2018) and presented a series of lectures and articles for the "Revival" Utrecht Early Music Festival (2023). She is a Masters Research Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and works internationally as a speaker, teacher, violinist/conductor, and coach.

Summary

How can the early music movement move into the future? Could this be a transformative moment for change and growth? In this collection of essays, a diverse group of young and established voices from across the globe offers exciting, positive, and challenging thoughts about how we can reimagine the early music movement in this new century.

Nicholas Kenyon's preface is followed by sixteen chapters written by performers, scholars, and pedagogues. They introduce new ways to conduct research, discuss various performative issues, offer numerous educational directions and exciting technological tools, and-perhaps most importantly-suggest ways we can engage with the present as well as with the past. These chapters include material that has been translated into English for the first time and are presented under Methodological Viewpoints, (Non) Historical Instruments, Pedagogical Perspectives, Transformative Technologies, and Revisiting History. An accompanying website provides additional audio and video material.

This post-revival period for the early music movement is crucial for its enduring success. How can a revival movement that looks to the past for inspiration engage with todays social and technological concerns? Early Music in the 21st Century asks important questions for everyone interested in early musicperformers, teachers, academics, instrument makers, historians, and music lovers. By encouraging a return to the revolutionary spirit of the pioneering generations, this book offers a plethora of positive possibilities for the future of early music.

Product details

• Authors: Mimi (Senior Lecturer Mitchell
• Assisted by: Mimi Mitchell (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2024
• EAN: 9780197683064
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768306-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres