Musicology, Archaeology, Performance

Abstract

This introduction provides historical and theoretical context and sets up the key questions explored in the book, including issues of authenticity and historically informed performance in musicology and methods of performance studies that can be employed by musicology. It introduces two new ways of thinking about the performance of the musical past: re-enactment and reperformance. The introduction also highlights the theoretical methodologies by examining in parallel the historiography of musicology, archaeology, and photography in Paris in the 1890s and the first decades of the 1900s. It examines the tools and methods used throughout the book as well as those of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars.