Download or read book The Ricercars of the Bourdeney Codex written by Giaches Brumel and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition contains seventeen recently discovered ricercars from the Bourdeney Codex, a compendium in score of mid- and late-sixteenth-century polyphony. Although all but one of the ricercars are anonymous in Bourdeney, four of them are attributed to "Giaches" in a concordant source. The editor proposes that fourteen of the pieces are works of the Ferrarese organist Giaches Brumel, that these ricercars are among the most significant instrumental works surviving from the mid-sixteenth century, and that they mark the beginning of a distinctive school of abstract instrumental music culminating in the Fantasie and Capricci of Frescobaldi." --