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.

Haynes always writes as the insider performer, and his writing is fresh and direct...likely to be enjoyed by most musicians.

• List of Musical ExamplesList of Recorded ExcerptsPreface: If this Muses Come to CallAcknowledgementsPart I: Performing StylesOne: Performing Style: When You Say Something Differently, You Say Something DifferentTwo: Mind the Gap: Current StylesThree: Mainstream Style: "Chops, but no Soul"Part II: How Romantic Are We?Four: Classical Music's Coarse CaressFive: The Transparent PerformerSix: Changing Meanings, Permanent SymbolsPart III: Anachronism and AuthenticitySeven: Original EarsEight: Ways of Copying the PastNine: The Medium is the Message: Period InstrumentsTen: Baroque Oratory Compared with Romantic AutobiographyEleven: Gestural PhrasingPart V: The End of "Early" MusicTwelve: Passive and Active Musicking: Stop Staring and Grow Your OwnThirteen: Mainstream Musicking as "Early Music"Fourteen: Perpetual RevolutionNotesList of Bibliographic AbbreviationsBibliographyIndex