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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. At a time when composers like Obrecht, Isaac, and
Josquin were bringing the craft of composition to new heights of
artistic excellence, critics began to insist that art polyphony was
useless, wasteful, immoral, decadent, and effeminizing. They
campaigned aggressively to popularize those criticisms, challenging
old certainties about music, and threatening its position in
contemporary church and society. Their most effective slogans
became critical commonplaces, ideas that left their mark in the
writings of figures as diverse as Leonardo, Erasmus, Savonarola,
Castiglione, and others. Yet defenders of polyphony struck back
with a vicious counter-offensive, and for several decades music
would remain a topic of bitter controversy. When the crisis had
finally passed, in the 1530s, nothing would ever be the same again.
Now in paperback, The Crisis of Music in Early ModernEurope 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.
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