Scholarship, performance and virtuosity

One of the first objectives of Early Music was to allow scholarship to inform performance. More than any other journal or medium, this it has done. Performers of early repertories lapped up what was served to them about rhythm, articulation, instrument design, tuning, pitch, singing styles, ornamentation etc, and zealously rendered all these things into the style, which has now been largely discredited, or rather subsumed into the mainstream. Here, Price talks about allowing performance to inform scholarship.