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Performing Music: In the Age of
Recording Robert Philip |
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Listeners have enjoyed
classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues
about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the
relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences
affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact
of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert
Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, Early Recordings
and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950.
Philip here considers the interaction between music-making and recording
throughout the entire twentieth century. The author compares the
lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of
today. He examines such diverse and sometimes contentious topics as changing
attitudes toward freedom of expression, the authority of recordings made by
or approved by composers, the globalization of performing styles, and the
rise of the period instrument movement. Philip concludes with a thought-
provoking discussion of the future of classical music performance. Robert Philip is lecturer in music, The
Open University. He has extensive experience as a music critic, broadcaster,
writer and performer. |
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