Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute; The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parametersmdash;and limitationsmdash;of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates; performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance. Only by continual examination and reexamination of the sources to discover original intent can an early music practitioner come close to authentic performance.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. and I like the authors historical analysisBy G. RangitschThe subject matter is very interesting; and I like the authors historical analysis. However; he writes like a college sophomore; using phrases like "next I will analyze." He paces the writing in a heavily outlined manner; proceeding thus: "These are my two points. Here is my first point. Then my second point. To summarize; the two points of interest are..." If the text was smoother reading it would be much more enjoyable.