Words and music, the scholar's view; a medley of problems and solutions compiled in honor of A. Tillman Merritt by sundry hands. / Edited by Laurence Berman. Editorial committee: Elliot Forbes [and others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berman, Laurence D., editor.

Forbes, Elliot, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merritt, A. Tillman (Arthur Tillman).

Merritt, A. Tillman.

Music.

Music and literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvii, 358 pages : music, portrait ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Dept. of Music, Harvard University, 1972.

Contents:

Preface.

Biographical note.

Psyche's lament: some music for the Medici wedding in 1565, by H. M. Brown.

Transitional text forms and settings in an early 16th century Florentine manuscript, by F. A. D'Accone.

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt: an example of a Goethe lyric set to music, by E. Forbes.

Hindemith's Mass 1963: an introduction, by R. F. French.

Altro non è il mio amor, by J. Haar.

Voix de ville: between humanist ideals and musical realities, by D. Heartz.

Music for St. Stephen at Laon, by D. G. Hughes.

Music for a noble Florentine wedding (1539), by H. W. Kaufmann.

Marco Scacchi's defense of modern music (1649), by C. V. Palisca.

Text setting with the shipyi animated aria, by R. Chao Pian.

New glimpses of an unwritten tradition, by N. Pirrotta.

An anonymous twice-texted motet (ÀA.T.M.), by H. C. Slim.

The prooemiac psalm of Byzantine vespers, by M. Velimirović.

Curious tunes for strange histories, by J. M. Ward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

333488