The Great Baroque Hoax: A Guide to Baroque Performance for Musicians and Connoisseurs - Babitz, Sol 1911-1982 (1970)
This book summarizes 35 years of research by Sol Babitz, founder of The Early Music Laboratory in Hollywood. In it he explains the differences in the instruments, techniques and interpretations of Baroque music, between the Baroque period and the present.
Keywords: Historically informed performance; Baroque; Music criticism