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Does musicology become disconnected from its roots with reconstructing what has not been handed down by sources or is the circumferential route along derived information defensible here? Fabrice Fitch has made a serious attempt with his reconstruction of the two missing voices in Jacob Obrecht’s Scaramella mass.

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella (ca. 1458–1505) may be considered a lost masterpiece by one of the greatest of the astonishing generation of composers activ...