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Author Owens, Jessie Ann
Title “Music Historiography and the Definition of ‘Renaissance.’”
Work Type Journal Article
Language English
Publication Date 1990
Keywords historiography, Renaissance, views of the Renaissance, defining the Renaissance, what is the Renaissance?, Charnles Birney, Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Citation Owens, Jessie Ann. “Music Historiography and the Definition of ‘Renaissance.’” Notes 47, no. 2 (December 1990): 305-330. ["Each generation...creates its own hero, either a contemporary composer or one whose feats were still vivid enough to be remembered." p. 313]
Identity composer|audience|professional|apprentice|master|expert|
Other Identity historiography
Education composition|
Flourished 1450s|1460s|1470s|1480s|1490s|1500s|1510s|1520s|1530s|1540s|1550s|1560s|1570s|1580s|1590s|1600s|
Region regiongeneral|
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