This course will introduce students to commonly encountered performance styles and identify the differences between them.  Pre-Romantic values will be used as an inspiration for the examination of Romantic artistic assumptions and motives associated with performance and repertoire.  Werktreue, the Urtext imperative, formality in ritualized performance, ‘authenticity' as an industry standard, expressivity and phrasing based on rhetorical gesture, affect, descriptive and prescriptive musical notation, and the role of the interpretative conductor will be discussed in order to identify values that have given rise to performance styles and repertoire of the past.  A broad range of recorded repertoire will be introduced highlighting the breadth of performance styles and their application.  Students will be introduced to key literature and primary sources including period tutors and instructional methods.  Students will be encouraged to mediate (through performance) in a richly contextualised way between an historic past documented in the musical score of a work and its correlative aesthetic present.  The course will almost certainly lead to a reassessment of both received and personal interpretative responses to repertoire of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.

A demonstrable knowledge of the developments in Historically Inspired Performance that led to the current state of the performance conventions; the ability to listen in a critical and discriminatory fashion to live and recorded performances and to be able to apply these learnt practices to their own performances.

Attendance required at 85% of classes for successful completion.

Submission of critical review and analysis diary (40%)
Participation in HIP workshop (10%)
A 2000 word essay on a topic related to HIP OR a lecture recital including the complete performance of a selected work of 3 - 5 minutes duration. (50%)

This course will consist of three components:

1. A series of weekly one hour lectures;
2. Attendance at a weekly HIP critical listening seminar of one hour;
3. Attendance at four scheduled HIP workshops of 2 hours duration.

DVD: Bilson, Malcolm (2005); Knowing the Score, Cornell University.