Table of Contents: Text and act :

Main Author:	Taruskin, Richard.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Beethoven, Ludwig van. Performance practice (Music) Style, Musical. Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) Style musical. MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Techniques. Uitvoeringspraktijk. Muziekinterpretatie. Interprétation musicale. Musique > Exécution. Musikalische Aufführungspraxis. Musikalischer Stil.

Table of Contents:

On letting the music speak for itself
The limits of authenticity : a contribution
Down with the fence
The pastness of the present and the presence of the past
What, or where, is the original?
The modern sound of early music
Tradition and authority
Beethoven : the new antiquity
Beethoven : resisting the Ninth
Mozart : an icon for our time
A Mozart wholly ours
Mozart : old (new) instruments, new (old) tempos
Bach : backslide or harbinger?
Facing up, finally, to Bach's dark vision
Bach : the crooked straight and the rough places plain
Report from Lincoln Center : the International Josquin Festival-Conference, 21-25 june 1971
The price of literacy, or, why we need musicology
High, sweet, and loud
Text and act
Stravinsky lite (even "The rite").