Essays on music in the Western World
By: [by] Oliver Strunk. Foreword by Lewis Lockwood.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The majority of the essays in this volume were written between the late 1920s ... and 1950."
Table of contents: title: Erich Hertzmann (December 14, 1902-March 3, 1963); title: The historical aspect of musicology.; title: Sources and problems for graduate study in musicology.; title: Vergil in music.; title: On the date of Marchetto da Padova.; title: Church polyphony apropos of a new fragment at Grottaferrata.; title: The music of the Old Hall manuscript; a postscript.; title: The Ordinarium missae in settings by Dufay and Power.; title: Origins of the "L'homme armé" mass.; title: Relative sonority as a factor in style-critical analysis.; title: A Cypriot in Venice.; title: Guglielmo Gonzaga and Palestrina's Missa dominicalis.; title: Some motet-types of the sixteenth century.; title: Haydn.; title: Haydn's divertimenti for baryton, viola, and bass (after manuscripts in the Library of Congress); title: Notes on a Haydn autograph.; title: Early music publishing in the United States.; title: Verdiana in the Library of Congress.