Composers At Work : The Craft Of Musical Composition 1450-1600.

A pathbreaking study of the compositional process before 1600, based on surviving manuscripts, of which there are more than had been assumed. The amazing conclusion is that composers wrote even complicated polyphonic pieces without a score. Many facsimile plates & music examples. Bibliography, indexes

368 pg. | 89 halftones, 31 music examples, 2 line illus.; 23 cm.
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Language: English
ISBN: 0195129040
ISBN13: 9780195129045