Words and music
Subtitle: the scholar's view; a medley of problems and solutions compiled in honor of A. Tillman Merritt by sundry hands.
By: Edited by Laurence Berman. Editorial committee: Elliot Forbes [and others.
Contributors: Berman, Laurence D.; Forbes, Elliot.
Publisher: Dept. of Music, Harvard University
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Merritt, A. Tillman; Music.; Music and literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Preface.; value: Biographical note.; value: Psyche's lament: some music for the Medici wedding in 1565, by H. M. Brown.; value: Transitional text forms and settings in an early 16th century Florentine manuscript, by F. A. D'Accone.; value: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt: an example of a Goethe lyric set to music, by E. Forbes.; value: Hindemith's Mass 1963: an introduction, by R. F. French.; value: Altro non è il mio amor, by J. Haar.; value: Voix de ville: between humanist ideals and musical realities, by D. Heartz.; value: Music for St. Stephen at Laon, by D. G. Hughes.; value: Music for a noble Florentine wedding (1539), by H. W. Kaufmann.; value: Marco Scacchi's defense of modern music (1649), by C. V. Palisca.; value: Text setting with the shipyi animated aria, by R. Chao Pian.; value: New glimpses of an unwritten tradition, by N. Pirrotta.; value: An anonymous twice-texted motet (ÀA.T.M.), by H. C. Slim.; value: The prooemiac psalm of Byzantine vespers, by M. Velimirović.; value: Curious tunes for strange histories, by J. M. Ward.