The End of Early Music

Recently retired as a performer, Bruce Haynes worked for many years in Holland. He introduced the hautboy into the Dutch music curriculum, teaching at the Royal Conservatory. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal. He has published widely on the history of the oboe and performing pitch standards.

List of Musical Examples
List of Recorded Excerpts
Preface: If this Muses Come to Call
Acknowledgements
Part I: Performing Styles
One: Performing Style: When You Say Something Differently, You Say Something Different
Two: Mind the Gap: Current Styles
Three: Mainstream Style: "Chops, but no Soul"
Part II: How Romantic Are We?
Four: Classical Music's Coarse Caress
Five: The Transparent Performer
Six: Changing Meanings, Permanent Symbols
Part III: Anachronism and Authenticity
Seven: Original Ears
Eight: Ways of Copying the Past
Nine: The Medium is the Message: Period Instruments
Ten: Baroque Oratory Compared with Romantic Autobiography
Eleven: Gestural Phrasing
Part V: The End of "Early" Music
Twelve: Passive and Active Musicking: Stop Staring and Grow Your Own
Thirteen: Mainstream Musicking as "Early Music"
Fourteen: Perpetual Revolution
Notes
List of Bibliographic Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index