The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence © Oxford University Press 2016

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The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence - This book began as my attempt to sort out for myself the issues of expression and the passions...

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What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the performance of early music in the modern...

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