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9780195129045
Owens has provided detailed studies of the working methods of four composers including Palestrina, who "may have used the lute in composing" and could write a mass "in three weeks", but "did not compose in score", and continued "to revise and polish" his works until the last moment. This excellent book is important not only for its general theory but for its illumination of the everyday.Owens, Jessie Ann is the author of 'Composers at Work The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600' with ISBN 9780195129045 and ISBN 0195129040.
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