ESSAYS ON MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD

Strunk, William Oliver

ISBN 10: 0393021785 / ISBN 13: 9780393021783

Published by W. W. Norton, New York, 1974

About this Item

Occasional essays on the history of music (mainly eighteenth century and before), and musicology by a Princeton professor. The chapter headings are: Erich Hertzmann; The Historical Aspect of Musicology; Sources and Problems for Graduate Study in Musicology; Vergil in Music; On the Date of the Marchetto da Padova; Church Polyphony apropos of a New Fragment at Grottafera; 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; Gugliermo Gonzaga and Palestrina's MISSA DOMINICALIS; Some Motet-Types of the Sixteenth Century; Haydn; Haydn's DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA, AND BASS; Notes on a Haydn Autograph; Early Music Publishing in the United States; and Verdiana in the Library of Congress. Eighteen papers, 200 pages, with figures, halftones, and two Appendixes; plus xxii pages Contents, Foreword (by Lewis Lockwood), and Preface; erratum slip laid in. ExLib: markings are limited to bar code and strike-out on lfEP, reference card glued to rfEP and stamp on rfEP, pencilled location number on title page, and stamp on upper text edge. Covers show slight wear at backstrap, otherwise sound; text is strong, but the upper edges of pages 27-38 have been somehow crimped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ESSAYS ON MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD
• Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393021785
• ISBN 13: 9780393021783
• Binding: Black Boards
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket