Early Musical Borrowing

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.