Science and Art of Renaissance Music

"[W]hen Haar turns to the central figures of Renaissance music, he begins with odd and unexpected corners of their output: how a German musician recomposed some classic paragraphs in the music of Josquin des Pres, fifty years after they were first written; how some later writers described (or misdescribed) Josquin's compositional technique; how the frontispiece of a treatise by Gafori betrays a disturbing hidden agenda; how nineteenth-century writers (among them Berlioz) interpreted historical details from the sixteenth century in line with their own attitudes and ideals. All these essays are fascinating to read.Haar, James is the author of 'Science and Art of Renaissance Music' with ISBN 9780691028743 and ISBN 0691028745.