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 Duo," Joseph Kerman on Verdi,
and Elliot Forbes on Beethoven.
Originally published in 1958.
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