About the Author:
Bernard D. Sherman writes about early music and other topics for Fanfare, Historical Performance, Early Music America, Strings, and Piano and Keyboard, among other journals and magazines. He wrote the article on "Authenticity in Musical Performance" for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (OUP, 1998).

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Atmosphere of Controversy

PART ONE: The Middle Ages, Plainchant, and "Otherness"
1.: A Different Sense of Time-Marcel Pérès on plainchant
2.: You Can't Sing a Footnote--Susan Hellauer on performing medieval music
3.: Vox Feminea--Barbara Thornton on Hildegard von Bingen
4.: The Colonizing Ear--Christopher Page on medieval music
Postscript: The Middle Ages, Plainchant, and "Otherness"

PART TWO: The Renaissance, Oxbridge, and Italy
The Modern "English Countenance"
5.: There Is No Such Thing as a Norm--Paul Hillier on Renaissance sacred vocal music
6.: Other Kinds of Beauty--Peter Phillips on Palestrina and the Tallis Scholars
7.: Singing Like a Native--Alan Curtis, Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Anthony Rooley on Monteverdi; Afterword
8.: Emotional Logic--Andrew Lawrence-King on instrumental music and improvisation

PART THREE: The Baroque
9.: Consistent Inconsistencies--John Butt on Bach
10.: "One Should Not Make a Rule"--Gustav Leonhardt on Baroque keyboard music
11.: Aladdin's Lamp-- Anner Bylsma on the 'cello (and Vivaldi)
12.: Beyond the Beautiful Pearl--Julianne Baird on the Italian and English styles
13.: You Can Never Be Right for All Time--Nicholas McGegan on Handel
14.: At Home with the Idiom--William Christie on the French Baroque
15.: Triple Counterpoint:--Jeffrey Thomas, Philippe Herreweghe, and John Butt on Singing Bach's Sacred Works

PART FOUR: Classic and Romantic
16.: Restoring Ingredients--Malcolm Bilson on the Fortepiano
17.: Speaking Mozart's Lingo--Robert Levin on Mozart and Improvisation
18.: Taking Music off the Pedestal--Roger Norrington on Beethoven
Postscript: "Classical" and "Romantic" Performance Practice in Beethoven
19.: Reviving Idiosyncrasies--John Eliot Gardiner on Berlioz and Brahms
20.: Reinventing Wheels--Joshua Rifkin on Interpretation and Rhetoric

Epilog