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 InfoNew York : W. W. Norton, [1974]
Descriptionxxii, 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 noteLittle-96531 - $8.95
General note"The majority of the essays in this volume were written between the late 1920s ... and 1950."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 74005414
ISBN0393021785

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