Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand's approach to authentic period performance practice might seem like heresy to the orthodox; he asserts that since we cannot know with certainty how a particular piece of early music was originally performed, the modern performers' goal is not to go to all lengths to try to duplicate an "authentic" performance, but to bring all of their skill, study, and insight to the music and create a personally honest interpretation, even if that means relying more on the performers' intuition than on ...
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Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand's approach to authentic period performance practice might seem like heresy to the orthodox; he asserts that since we cannot know with certainty how a particular piece of early music was originally performed, the modern performers' goal is not to go to all lengths to try to duplicate an "authentic" performance, but to bring all of their skill, study, and insight to the music and create a personally honest interpretation, even if that means relying more on the performers' intuition than on the written source. He persuasively points to research into Renaissance performance practice that indicates that that was precisely the approach taken by players of the period when performing music of earlier eras. For Lislevand, the fact that the solutions devised by a contemporary performer might bear little resemblance to those devised by Renaissance performers is an inevitability to be celebrated, not lamented. The sixteenth century songs and dances, mostly Italian, Lislevand and...
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