To regain the style of a past era means that you have to improvise, ornament, add notes - skills that are hardly recognized in mainstream conservatory training - and phrase and articulate quite differently than you learn to do in such a conservatory. As a result, you can creatively rethink how to play. Even better, especially if you play music about which there's little or no evidence regarding performance style, you can construct your own style more or less from scratch.http://www.bsherman.net/IEMintro.htmAn Atmosphere of Controversythe introduction from the book Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers by Bernard D. Sherman