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