Author : Honey Meconi
Release : 2004-03-01
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 935/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Early Musical Borrowing by : Honey Meconi
Download or read book Early Musical Borrowing written by Honey Meconi. This book was released on 2004-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely addition to Routledge's Criticism and Analysis of Early Music series, this collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music, addressing how and why borrowing was used, the significance of borrowing, the techniques of borrowing, and its recognizable features. The book provides a broad overview of this common practice and sheds light on previously unexplored aspects of early musical borrowing. It functions as both an introduction to the subject as well as a guide for further research. The contributors, all highly regarded in their field, offer new insights that will change the way we view borrowing.