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‘Alte Musik’ or ‘Early Music’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

RICHARD TARUSKIN
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Abstract

An attempt to distinguish between ‘alte Musik’, as German musicians used to conceive it, and ‘early music’, as is now the common phrase in English, provides a new – and perhaps better – lens through which to view the old historical schisms of twentieth-century music. The recourse that musical innovators have always had to ancient precedents, as inspiration and as validation, has many variations, and these variations are reliable reflectors of aesthetic attitudes.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 3 - 28
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