Early Musical Borrowing

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Early Musical Borrowing is written by Honey Meconi and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135577935 (ISBN 10) and 9781135577933 (ISBN 13).

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.