Essays on music in the Western World / [by] Oliver Strunk. Foreword by Lewis Lockwood.
| Author/creator | Strunk, W. Oliver |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | [1st edition] |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton, [1974] |
| Description | xxii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Erich Hertzmann (December 14, 1902-March 3, 1963) -- The historical aspect of musicology -- Sources and problems for graduate study in musicology -- Vergil in music -- On the date of Marchetto da Padova -- Church polyphony apropos of a new fragment at Grottaferrata -- The music of the Old Hall manuscript; a postscript -- The Ordinarium missae in settings by Dufay and Power -- Origins of the "L'homme armé" mass -- Relative sonority as a factor in style-critical analysis -- A Cypriot in Venice -- Guglielmo Gonzaga and Palestrina's Missa dominicalis -- Some motet-types of the sixteenth century -- Haydn -- Haydn's divertimenti for baryton, viola, and bass (after manuscripts in the Library of Congress) -- Notes on a Haydn autograph -- Early music publishing in the United States -- Verdiana in the Library of Congress. |
| Local note | Little-96531 - $8.95 |
| General note | "The majority of the essays in this volume were written between the late 1920s ... and 1950." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 74005414 |
| ISBN | 0393021785 |