Composers at Work by Owens

Composers at Work by Owens

Composers at Work discusses a problem that has fascinated scholars for a long time: how did Renaissance composers write their complex vocal polyphony? Twentieth-century scholars are so accustomed to scoring music, carefully lining up the vertical simultaneities, and carefully aligning the bar lines in order to study and perform music, that the idea that a composer could create elaborate polyphony, even in eight parts, without the aid of a score, seems incomprehensible. How then did sixteenth-century composers write their music, and what evidence exists to document this compositional process? Using sketches and other documentary evidence, long a matter of intense study in later centuries, Professor Owens' study is the first full-length investigation of the topic in Renaissance music. It sets out the indispensable background to an inquiry and into the fundamental processes of Renaissance composition.

Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 sets out the substance of Owens' investigations, offering clear and elegant insights into how budding 16th century composers were taught* Andrew Stewart, Early Music Today, April/May 1998 *

Jessie Ann Owens, University of California Davis, USA, and John Milsom

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ISBN 13	9780195129045
ISBN 10	0195129040
Title	Composers at Work
Author	Owens
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1999-04-01
Number of pages	368
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