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Perhaps there are some parallels with Historically informed performance of classical music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_informed_performance e.g., Variety of opinion Opinions on the historically informed performance movement vary widely, from very strong support to very strong opposition. To the extent that it derives its authority from the "composer's original intentions," the historically informed performance debate has been disputed on several grounds: (1) It is impossible to know for sure what a composer intended; (2) It is erroneous to believe that a composer always had specific intentions about the things over which the authenticity debate is usually waged (e.g. tempo markings, instrumentation, or interpretive decisions); (3) Even when we have reasonable evidence that a composer had a specific intention about an aspect of a piece, it has often been the case that this intention is different from (and in some cases directly contradictory to) the practice that authenticists claim to be "authentic"; (4) Even if it were possible to know a composer's intention, it is not self-evident that adherence to that intention is, in itself, a virtue.