...Joshua Navon The development of modern styles of elite music education played a crucial role in entrenching Werktreue as the dominant practice within classical music performance. Focusing on Germany’s first conservatory, the Leipzig conservatory, which was founded in 1843, this article analyzes how...

... mensural structure—one section with all voices in ◯, and one with the tenor continuing in ◯ but the other five voices switching to ◯ 2 , with semibreve-minim equivalence with the tenor—has been ignored entirely in all modern performances of the work that have been recorded in the last thirty years, usually...