The end of ancient music

Bruce Haines made his career as a Goboist in a classic orchestra and, from his youth, was interested in the history of performing practice and his instrument (in the late 1960s he opened a workshop in California, where remarks of baroque Goboev were made under his leadership) The experience gained by him on modern and historical instruments, concerts and records with famous musicians and collectives, communicating with musicologists forms the basis of this book, in which Heins tells how the codified musical recording and the spread of musical works on paper gradually cleared Western music from variability and variability and variables and They made her "academic" - and then, in the last half a century, academic musicians discovered a whole universe behind the strict facade of their discipline, from which, not being able to completely subordinate it, this discipline has grown. Thus, the historical end of ancient music turned out to be a condition for its beginning, a new birth, to which the author of this book was also involved