TLRH | Vocal Music of the Late Baroque, and the Employment of Female Musicians

Monday, 14 February 2022, 10 – 11am 'Historically Informed
Performance (HIP), Vocal Music of the Late Baroque, and the
Employment of Female Musicians' a talk by Dr Simon Trezise as part
of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum in association with
the Trinity Long Room Hub. The School of Creative Arts Research
Forum meets fortnightly at 10am on Mondays during term and is led
by the School's doctoral students. The aim of the Forum is to give
a space for School researchers, both staff and postgraduate
students, to share their ideas in a supportive environment. It is
also an opportunity for the School to hear about the research of
colleagues both from within TCD and outside who share our research
interests. In line with the research agenda of the School, talks
will encompass traditional research and practice-based research and
will be followed by Q&A. The past half century has witnessed
great changes in the performance of late Baroque vocal music (along
with much other ‘early’ music) by the application of a historicist,
evidence-based approach. That this approach has sought to recreate
the sound of early performances through carefully produced Urtexts,
study of theoretical treatises, restoration or reconstruction of
original instruments, and much more is acknowledged, but the HIP
movement has its blind spots, where historical evidence is
overlooked or distorted. A few instances of this are described,
concluding with some observations on the employment of female
musicians. Dr Simon Trezise is a retired Associate Professor of the
Music Department at Trinity College Dublin. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/