Guidelines for Historically Informed Performance Practice

Baroque music is about Singing, Speaking and Dancing at (about) the same time (think Singing in the Rain)

Musical gesture is informed by the traditions of rhetorical design and delivery

Metric hierarchy bears upon most interpretive decisions: where in a bar does an event take place?

Musicianship that thrives on the improvisational impulse is privileged over reproductive musicianship

The tension in music between Structure and Ornamentation is constant, but varying

Dynamics are usually local behaviors; at deeper levels of detail, there is constant change in all parameters

Deciphering signs in a text often requires exegesis

Harmonic reduction is an efficient path to understanding tonal music, because tonality is hierarchical

Tuning and Intonation are part of the dialect

A performance is an analysis, an analysis is a performance

Silence is part of performance