Year: 2009
Type: book-review
Abstract: In many respects an impressive study, in others this book disappoints the reader.The treatment of extant music offers Httle that is not known to the speciahst or available elsewhere to the non-specialist.Cummings' work helps music historians understand the relative importance of visual as opposed to musical elements in the festivals.However, the uneven treatment of the actual music creates a pitfall for the unwary: it falls short of meticulous "synthesis of primary references and results of scholarship" (p.xiv), and thus skews the plan of the "coherent whole" the author seeks to convey.
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2250724142