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Early Musical Borrowing.

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Early Musical Borrowing. Edited by Honey Meconi. New York: Routledge, 2004. (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music.) [xvii, 230 p. ISBN 0-8153-3521-0. $95.] Music examples, index, bibliography.

Early Musical Borrowing is a first-rate and timely work. The eight essays included in the collection are eclectic and well-researched, and cover a broad range of topics dealing with music borrowing as practiced primarily within the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The essays cover a plethora of interrelated and interdependent subjects, ranging in scope from the chanson Mass, intertextuality, illusion, and the interpretation and dating of selected works, to the Hapsburg-Burgundian manuscripts and borrowing, the polyphonic Missa de feria, and melodic citation in the motets of the sixteenth century. Subjects are treated thoroughly and painstakingly, and the essays are arranged in roughly chronological order, from the early fifteenth to the late sixteenth centuries.

The book as a whole is concise and very thought-provoking, and particularly useful in its introduction of newer scholarly methodologies. The reader is introduced to the labyrinth of analytical models, terms, and...

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