Critical Analysis of: “The Uses of Existing Music: Musical Borrowings as a Field”
“The Uses of Existing Music: Musical Borrowings as a Field” by Peter Burkholder[1] Critical Analysis by Diego Barbosa-Vásquez Burkholder defines the musical borrowing field as the study of the different procedures that composers use to create their compositions based on previous melodies, tonal plans or structures. More specifically organized in two parts, Burkholder uses the first part to describe the most important conclusions about the use of existing music as a field base
