Composers' Intentions?: Lost Traditions of Musical Performance

by Andrew Parrott

Essays on musical performance practice by an acknowledged expert in the field.

These selected essays by conductor Andrew Parrott reflect the thinking behind some four decades of his ground-breaking performances and recordings. Bringing together seminal writings on the performance expectations of, amongst others, Monteverdi, Purcell and J. S. Bach, this volume also includes the full version of a major new article calling into question the presumed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783270322
• ISBN13: 9781783270323
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"