Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 by Jessie Ann Owens
Oxford University Press | November 19, 1998 | English | ISBN: 0195129040 | 368 pages | PDF | 29 MB
How did Renaissance composers write their music? In this revolutionary look at a subject that has fascinated scholars for years, musicologist Jessie Ann Owens offers new and striking evidence that contrary to accepted theory, sixteenth-century composers did not use scores to compose–even to write complex vocal polyphony.