264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the final decades of the fifteenth century, the European musical world was shaken to its foundations by the onset of a veritable culture war. At a time when composers like Obrecht, Isaac, and Josquin were bringing the craft of composition to new heights of artistic excellence, critics began to insist that art polyphony was useless, wasteful, immoral, decadent, and effeminizing. They campaigned... Read more
1. They Are Not Hofereyen 2. Polyphony and Its Enemies: Before and After the 1470s 3. The Defense of Music 4. A Special Case: England 5. The Crisis and Its Legacy
Biography
Rob C. Wegman is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University.
"Wegman tells an interesting and important story well and entertainingly.... This book provides as thorough and compelling an account of the issues and their outcome as anything available." --Mark Sealey, Classical Net Review
