Essays on music in the Western World - Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver) 1901- (New York Norton, 1974)
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.
"The majority of the essays in this volume were written between the late 1920s and 1950."
Keywords: Music