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Author Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-1980.

Title Essays on music in the Western World [by] Oliver Strunk. Foreword by Lewis Lockwood.

Imprint New York, W. W. Norton [1974]

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Edition [1st ed.]
Description xxii, 200 p. illus. 22 cm.
Note "The majority of the essays in this volume were written between the late 1920s ... and 1950."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 arme" 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.
Subject Music.
ISBN 0393021785

 
    
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