Music, Love and Other Difficulties
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Music, Love and Other Difficulties
- Author
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place
- London
- Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conductor memoir / historically informed performance
SCOPE & CONTENT
This dossier identifies Music, Love and Other Difficulties by John Eliot Gardiner as a major source for the modern understanding of Baroque interpretation and historically informed performance. It is indexed by title, author and subject variants and highlights articulation, tempo, rhetoric, ornamentation, instrumental forces, source evidence, rehearsal practice and the relationship between historical research and living performance.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its research value lies in documenting the ideas and working methods through which modern conductors, instrumentalists and scholars reshaped Baroque performance. Historical evidence is distinguished from later interpretive doctrine and can be compared with original treatises, editions, recordings and current scholarship.
INTERPRETIVE PRACTICE
The entry highlights rhetoric, phrasing, continuo, ornamentation, tempo, ensemble size, instruments and the evidential basis for interpretive choices.
SEARCH AND RESEARCH USE
Title, author, subject and common variant forms are indexed independently of the attachment filename. When a physical document can be matched safely, verified bibliographic values are copied only into empty catalogue fields; existing valid metadata are preserved.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields