The strong devotion to musical quotation that arose in the latter half of the twentieth century has elicited increased research in the area of musical borrowing as a field of study, leading composers and theorists to eventually acknowledge musical borrowing as a distinct movement in postmodern music. With the rise of this artistic movement, however, also came the "death of the author" as creator of new meaning.
This book presents the set of Homages for piano solo by Canadian composer Jack Behrens as an illustration of the ways in which a composer can still assert his musical identity in the...