Quotes from Bruce Haynes

The main accent has to lie on diction, narratorship, not of course in a modern sense . . . but in an old Quintillian-based sense. —Frans Brüggen11

Expression in music can be compared to that of an orator. The orator and the musician have the same goal, both in the composition of their productions and in their expression. They want to seize hearts, to excite or calm the movements of the soul, and transport the listener from one passion to another. It is in their interests to have some idea of each other's abilities.13

We are not the same musicians, mentally nor the same human beings, and not being the same, it is very difficult to read an old music treatise in its proper meaning and context. The solution, of course, is to read less about music and more about context.1

Our intention is to demonstrate how vital it is for all involved in early music—performers, scholars, programmers, and audiences—to continue to think about what performing this music means—as much to the culture that created it as in today's world. Examining

Rhetoric is the performing artist's toolbox, the lore of "playing an audience," a set of techniques and skills, practiced for many centuries, that can be drawn from to produce specific results. That