LEONARDO J. WAISMAN UNA HISTORIA DE LA MÚSICA COLONIAL HISPANOAMERICANA Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones, 2019 pp. 478, isbn 978 9 873 82324 4

largely on how performers manage that silence. It is worth noting that the more rhetorical, contrastive and differentiated performance habits of ‘Early Music’ players were becoming mainstream at the same time that topic theory was taking off. One does not have to claim that one caused the other to see that the aural and the intellectual environments were in sync with each other. By the same token, Sutcliffe’s convincing, meticulously documented and deeply felt reading of late eighteenth-century style as embodying and enacting the wonderful richness of human interaction could be an opening for all of us whowrite about music routinely to include performers in our descriptions of what music means and how it goes.