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Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the music. Yet our view of the masque has been dominated by the texts, and indeed, modern scholarship has tended to treat the masque first and foremost as a literary genre. This book is the first complete study of the multi-faceted view of its subject, piecing together a picture of what the music was ...

Beginning with a 1915 Saint-Saens lecture on the performance of old music, this title sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s.

Both a defence of research aiming to recover how music sounded in the past and an argument for the application of such historical research to performance.