Early Musical Borrowing (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music)

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. "Music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries relied heavily on the practice of borrowing. In contrast to later eras, where originality or the appearance of originality was highly prized, composers during this period unselfconsciously based new yorks on preexistent material. It is difficult to understand or analyze many compositions of this time without understanding the various techniques of borrowing. Such an important compositional practice has long been the focus of scholarly attention, with the last decade seeing considerable new activity in this area. This volume brings together eight distinguished contributions discussing numerous aspects of musical borrowing, including how and why composers borrowed, what borrowing meant to them and to their listeners, and how we should approach this music and its models. Musicologists, performers, and students will find it a useful guide to this important issue in early music studies."--Publisher description A Cultural Context For The Chanson Mass / M. Jennifer Bloxam -- Ockeghem And Intertextuality : A Composer Interprets Himself / Murray Steib -- The Illusion Of Allusion / Jenny Hodgson -- Interpreting And Dating Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Christopher Reynolds -- Habsburg-burgundian Manuscripts, Borrowed Material, And The Practice Of Naming / Honey Meconi -- Aspects Of Musical Borrowing In The Polyphonic Missa De Feria Of The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries / Andrew H. Weaver -- Mid-sixteenth-century Chanson Masses : A Kaleidoscopic Process / Cathy Ann Elias -- Melodic Citation In The Sixteenth-century Motet / Michele Fromson. Edited By Honey Meconi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-218) And Index.