Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk

by Harold Powers

Book Overview

A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist. Donald Grout provides the introduction and outlines the problems confronting musicology today. Other essays are devoted to early Christian music, Renaissance music, early Italian opera; Arthur Mendel writes on ambiguities of the munsural system, Edward Lowinsky on Willaert's "Chromatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691626405
• ISBN13: 9780691626406
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"