Download or read book The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530 written by Rob C. Wegman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 on the art of polyphony. Now in paperback, The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe tells the story of this cultural upheaval, drawing on a wide range of little-known texts and documents, and weaving them together in a narrative that takes the reader on an eventful musical journey through early-modern Europe.