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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE : II UIUJJJIU~JIUIUIUIUilJ.JUJ;JJI I ~IIJUIJIJ II I I IJ 1 1 1 '1, Recent newspaper reports tell us that 1975 Meeting in the United States is approaching zero population-growth. Clearly no such situa Los Angeles tion obtains in the AMS. Cecil Adkins, T he annual Meeting of the So our Registrar, now counts upwards of ciety will be held in Los Angeles, 3,000 members and as anyone present at California, October 30 through No the Washington meeting can testify, it vember 2 (Thursday through Sun seemed at times as if they were all right day), at the Century-Plaza Hotel, there in the Mayflower Hotel. The advan with the University of California at tages of our increased size are consider Los Angeles as convention host. The able. In addition to the sheer exhilaration Host Committee is chaired by of having so many people engaged in Marie-Louise Gollner, assisted by musicological activity, we are enjoying a Malcolm Cole, Thomas Marrocco broadened range of interests and programs and Robert Winter. The Co-Chair within the Society, at the same time de men of the Program Committee are veloping the potentiality for significant in Lawrence and Marion Gushee of fluence upon the academic world repre the University of Wisconsin at Madi sented by institutions of learning and by son and abstracts of papers and other professional societies. other proposals should be send to Size has its disadvantages, too, of them NOT LATER THAN FEB course. Diversity of interest may lead to RUARY I, 1975, at this address: fragmentation, something we do not wish 2010 Madison Street, Madison, Wis to take place and will do all in our power consin 53711. The Program Com Gustave Reese to prevent. The size of the membership in mittee would especially welcome ~ attendance at national meetings, though proposals for presentations which E Gustave Reese Installed as exciting, may also be a source of frustra would take no more than twenty tion, as one agonizes over which of a mul (20) minutes. By encouraging shorter Honorary President titude of simultaneous sessions to attend. papers the Committee hopes to re Our Program Chairmen for the Los An duce the number of sessions which by Alvin Johnson geles meeting, Marion and Lawrence :! proceed simultaneously and make "The Greater World of Gustave Reese," it possible for members to attend a (Continued 011 page 2) is the title of Friedrich Blume's prefatory greater number of sessions. Pro article to the Reese Festschrift, Aspects of posals should be limited to a single Medieval and Renaissance Music. Pre page and submitted in five copies. sented to our distinguished colleague on Society Elects Heartz Tapes for Collegium auditions the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, that Daniel Heartz, Professor of. Music at should be forwarded to Bruce Bel volume celebrates Gustave Reese, the the University of California, Berkeley, lingham, Department of Music, Uni scholar, and therefore Professor Blume's was elected to the office of Vice President versity of Connecticut, Storrs, Con remarks are focused quite appropriately of the Society and installed at the 1974 necticut 06268, NOT LATER upon the European impact of those two annual meeting in Washington. Elected as THAN MARCH 15, 1975. monumental volumes, Music in the Middle Members-at-large of the Board of Di Ages, and Music in the Renaissance. We rectors were Donald J. Grout, Professor • U I U I UkliiiUIU i hi l h i UliiUUiliih i UIIUh iiU i iCI ~ on this side of the Atlantic have had those of Music at Cornell University; Colin books with us for so great a part of our Slim, Professor of Music at the University lives that we find it difficult to imagine of California at Irvine; and Philip Gos what our studies would be like without sett, Professor of Music at the University them. Because Professor Reese's achieve of Chicago. ments as scholar and teacher are so much Professor Heartz has been a member of a part of our musical experience, my re the music faculty at California since 1960 marks now are aimed at revealing the and Chairman of the Department of Music greater world of Gustave Reese in the since 1969. A Guggenheim Fellow in AMS. 1967-1968, he received the Dent Medal We begin with the founding of the So of the Royal Music Association in 1970 ciety as recorded in the Bulletin of the and the Kinkeldey Award of the Society AMS. No. I, 1936. "On June 3rd, 1934, in 1971. He is the author of Pierre A ttaing nine people- George Dickinson, Carl En ment, Royal Printer of Music and the edi gel, Gustave Reese, Helen Roberts, Joseph tor of Thomas Atwood's Theorie-und Schillinger, Charles Seeger, Harold Spi KompositiOIISStudien bei Mozart as well vacke, Oliver Strunk, Joseph Yasser- met as the editor of Jdomeneo in the Mozart (Continued on page 3) Neue Ausgabe. Daniel Heartz American Musicological Society-Organization 1975 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (Continued from page 1) Board of Directors Gushee, along· with their Committee, are Gustave Reese, Honorary Presidem searching for ways to reduce the number Janet Knapp, President of conflicting or overlapping activities. Daniel Heartz, Vice President Charles Hamm, Past President I should like here to speak in more Rita Benton, Secretary Alvin H. Johnson, Treasurer general terms of committees. The opera tion of the AMS depends to a very large Directors-at-Large degree on a network of standing and ad Term 1974-75 Term 1975-76 hoc committees. Perhaps the most heart Lawrence Bernstein Philip Gossett warming thing that I have experienced Robert Marshall Conald J. Grout thus far, as President-Elect and now as President of the Society, has been the re Eileen Southern Colin Slim sponse of the membership to my requests Lawrence Bernstein, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for committee service. Since mid-Septem ber I have approached some thirty people. Otto E. Albrecht, Business Manager of Publications To date, not a single one has refused to Cecil Adkins, Registrar and Director of the Placement Service help. A list of the committees is printed elsewhere in the Newsletter. Their mem Council bers come, as you see, from Arizona and Term 1975-77 Term 1974-76 Term 1973-75 Massachusetts, from New Jersey and Allan Atlas William Austin Philip Brett Colorado, from Michigan, Illinois, and Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and New Howard M. Brown Barry S. Brook Michael Collins York. They represent the small liberal arts Grosvenor Cooper George J. Buelow Robert S. Freeman college, the conservatory, the university, Lenore Coral Louise Cuyler Sarah Ann Fuller and yes, even the school of engineering. I Lawrence Gushee Vincent Duckles George H. Hunter am sure that you all share my apprecia Edwin Hanley H. Wiley Hitchcock Frederick Neumann tion for the burdens they have assumed William Holmes Imogene Horsley Anthony Newcomb on behalf of our organization. Joseph Kerman Paul Henry Lang Leeman K. Perkins You will observe that the Collegium Warren Kirkendale Lewis Lockwood Samuel F. Pogue Musicum Committee, like the Society it Edward Lerner James Pruett Joshua Rifkin self, has taken on larger dimensions. This William Newman Gustave Reese Ann B. Scott corresponds to the enormously increased attention to music making within the So Don Smithers Nicholas Temperley Frank Traficante ciety. For those of us long associated with Ruth Steiner Christoph Wolff musicology, progress toward the goal of Hendrik van der Werf bringing scholarly research to bear upon James Webster musical performance, n l e converso, has often seemed painfully slow. Until re Chapter Representatives cently it was difficult to interest singers Ralph Daniel, Midwest Robert Bailey, New David Boyden, Northern and instrumentalists of talent in music Almonte Howell, South England California from outside the standard repertory. Now, Central Stephen Bonta, New Malcolm S. Cole, happily, this has changed, and the mo Charles M. Carroll, York State Southern California Southern Patricia Meyers, Greater Hans-B. Dietz, Southwest mentum toward performance as a legiti Norris Stephens, Alleghany New York Edgar Lewis, Rocky Mt. mate area of musicology appears to be Thomas Warburton, Wayne Shirley, Capital Cha rle ~ Troy, Pacific NW irreversible. Southeast Milton Sutter, Mid-Atlantic One final word about what I must in evitably see as an important change in our Student Representatives to the Council Society, that is, the increasing number Term 1975-76 T erm 1974-75 of women enrolled. You will see that a James Fogle, Southeast James A. Cook. Southwest committee to examine the status of women David O'Dette, Alleghany Samuel Douglas, Southern in the profession has been established. As Esther Samuels, Mid-Atlantic Richard A. Fuller, Pacific Northwest one member of the group sagely re Douglas Seato, Greater New York Harold D. House, South Central marked: finding out about the status of Wayne Vogan, New York State Joe Kotylo, Rocky Mountain women is bound to tell us something about Dani Wells, Capital Ellen Jane Seretan. Northern California James Moore, Southern California the status of men. Our purpose is not di visive and I hope you will observe that two men have agreed (graciously, I may AMS NEWSLETTER is published twice Material for publication in the News say) to investigate this highly relevant mat ter with us. each year by the American Musicological letter should be sent to: Hubert Hender· Society and mailed to all members and If the tone of the foregoing comments son, Editor, AMS Newsletter, School of subscribers. Requests for additional cop is optimistic, it is because I meant it to be ies of current and back numbers should Music, University of Kentucky, Lexing so. We have problems, some of which I be mailed to: Otto E. Albrecht, Business ton, Kentucky 40506. Copy for the Jan will speak of in another message to you. Manager of Publications, 201 South 34th uary number must be in the editor"s hands We have differences of opinion. If we Street, University of Pennsylvania, Phil by December I. Copy for the August num are as objective and honest as we are vi adelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. ber must be received by July I. gorous and strong, we shall resolve them. The pundits say I cannot wish you a AMS NEWSLETTER is produced in prosperous I 975. I do wish you a happy Lexington at the University of Kentucky. one. 2 GUSTAVE REESE INSTALLED land in 1940 and Minneapolis in I941. man in the service of American musicol (Continued from page 1) He was a member of the Finance Com ogy. We salute you as editor and self at the apartment of Mrs. Ernest F. Wal mittee from 1971 through 1973 at a time effacing servant of the Society. ton at 25 Washington Square North. New when the Endowment Fund was estab On June I· of this year the Music De York, and declared themselves the Ameri lished. Although I have not beeo privy to partment of NYU held a day-long sym can Musicological Association. Otto Kin documents that record this, I am told posium in honor of Gustave Reese. It was keldey (absent but forewarned) was that Professor Reese served in the early characteristic of Professor Reese, that, elected President. At a further meeting years of the Society as chairman of the rather than passively bask in the honor (September 15, 1934) the name of the Membership Committee - a committee tendered him, he participated-no doubt association was changed to the American whose onerous duties you will appreciate after careful preparation-as a respond Musicological Society. At a general meet from this notice in the Bulletin, No. 6, ant to each paper. Confident that in nam ing, held on December I, at the Club 1942. "Each candidate for membership ing you as Honorary President the AMS Rooms of the Beethoven Association, a should file a "Statement of Applicant." will continue to benefit from your experi constitution and by-laws were drawn up His application should be supported by ence as scholar, editor, man of astute and officers elected, Charles Seeger and two sponsors, each of whom should file judgment and wise counsel, we salute you, Oliver Strunk vice-president, Gustave a "Statement of Sponsor." Forms may be Professor Reese, for forty years of devoted Reese secretary, Paul Henry Lang Treas obtained from the Secretary and then be labor and the love you bear toward the urer, as well as an Executive Board in returned to him for transmission to the Society and all its members. cluding the officers and four members-a: Membership Committee and the Execu large: Jean Beck, Archibald T. Davison, tive Board." We sa:ute you as committee Carl Eqgel, Carleton Sprague Smith." The man, doing the work that makes the AMS COMMITTEES, 1974-75 record is terse; I have not seen the minutes achievements of the organization possible. CHAPTER FUND: Paul Revitt, Chair of those meetings but I hazard the guess Gustave Reese's experience as an editor man; Aubrey Garlington, Albert Seay. that, drawing upon his training in the for the Musical Quarterly and Carl COLLEGIUM MUSICUM: Bruce Bel law, Gustave Reese had a hand in the Fischer, Inc. did not go unnoticed by the lingham, Chairman; Mary Anne Bal drafting of the constitution and by-laws. Society. In the early years before the first lard, Malcolm Bilson, Gilbert Blount, We salute you as a founder and charter issue of the Journal in 1948, he edited the Alejandro Planchart, Joel Sachs, Don member. papers of the AMS in 1939, 1940, and Smithers. As the Society's first secretary, Gustave 1941 and an issue of the Bulletin in 1943. EINSTEIN AWARD: Ruth Steiner, Chair Reese served for twelve years until 1947 Then at a time when the Journal fell be man; Leonard Meyer; Joel Sheveloff. when he was elected Vice-President. In hin:l in its publication schedule, he edited 1951, after four years in that office, he two issues in 1957, thereby assisting the FINANCE: Alvin Johnson, Chairman; was elected president for a two-year term. Society in getting the Journal back on Daniel Heartz, Janet Knapp. At the conclusion of his presidency in schedule where, by the way, it has been HAYON FESTIVAL CONFERENCE: December 1952, Prof. Reese had held kept by the disciplined efforts of a suc Jens Peter Larsen, Chairman; Jan La three offices in the Society successively for cession of editors-David Hughes, Lewis Rue, irving Lowens, Alfred Mann. eighteen years. Noting his movement from Lockwood. James Haar, Martin Picker KINKELDEY AWARD: Victor Yellin, Secretary to Vice-President to President, and Don Randel. Chairman; Rebecca Baltzer, Daniel we ascribe his avoidance of the office of These sporadic editorial chores are, how Heartz. Treasurer to his innate common sense. ever, only a small part of his editorial LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, LOS AN But his experience and counsel were in labors on our behalf. Gustave Reese served GELES: Marie-Louise Gollner, Chair dispensible so we elected him to the on the Publications Committee from 1943 man. Board in 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958 and to 1945 and then from 1955 to the pres NOMINATIONS: James Anthony, Chair 1962, then for a two-year term 1959-60 ent, from 1955 to 19:73 as chairman. Dur man; Imogene Horsley, William V. Por he was re-elected Vice-President and to ing all those years Arthur Mendel was ter. the Board again in 1970-71. In addition one of his co-workers and I am sure that PROGRAM: Lawrence and Marion Gus to these official positions within the AMS. if they were so inclined they could write hee, Co-Chairmen; Richard Crawford, Gustave Reese has been the spokesman for memoirs of unending consultations, deli· William Holmes, Anthony Newcomb; our interests beyond the confines of our berations and editorial tribulations that re Collegium Representative, Bruce Bel Society. In May of 1961, he along with main unrecorded. Funds available to the lingham. William Mitchell, Glen Haydon, and Otto committee were limited to what Otto Al PUBLICATIONS: James Haar, Chairman; Albrecht, under the auspices of the State brecht, the Treasurer for most of those William Austin, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Department, travelled in the USSR estab years, managed to squeeze out of tight Arthur Mendel, Gustave Reese, Ernest lishing relationships with Russian schol budgets. But, all in all, starting in 1948 Sanders. ars-a journey that was of consequence when the first edition of the Collected RISM (JOINT COMMITTEE WITH for the Congress of the IMS in New York Works of Ockeghem, Vol. II, came off the MLA): Otto Albrecht, Chairman; Frank the following August. He has also been a press, the Committee brought out six pub Campbell, Donald Leavitt, Gustave member of the Directorium of the IMS lications- Ockeghem, Vols. I and ll; the Reese. and President of the Renaissance Society Complete Works of Dunstable, each in a STAT US OF WOMEN IN MUSICOL of America. We salute you as elected of first and second edition; the Elizabethan OGY: Sarah Fuller, Chairman; Isabelle ficial and ambassador-at-large. Madrigal, now in its third printing; the Cazeaux, Anne Hallmark, George Nu Perhaps the less visible, low-profile serv Quantz Versuch; and the Music of Noel gent, Harold S. Powers. ices supportive of a society such as ours Bauldeweyn-at a total cost to the So U.S. BICENTENNIAL: Cynthia Hoover, need to be acclaimed more often than our ciety of only $35,000 of which $23,000 Chairman; Richard Crawford, Charles public meetings permit. Because commit has been recovered from sales. Nothing Hamm, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Eileen tee work done between meetings is so was ever paid out to the committee or its Southern. little known even to others so engaged, I chairman for the editorial and publishing AMS DELEGATE TO ACLS: Donald fear that in this recitation 1 shall inadver work done on these projects. l have no Grout. tently omit important duties Gustave Reese idea how many proposals were rejected AMS DELEGATE TO ACAE: Claude has borne for us. He served as program for lack of financial resources, but we can Palisca. committee chairman for the Annual Meet imagine how much time and effort were AMS LIAISON OFFICER FOR ACLS ings here in Washington in 1938, Cleve- expended by the committee and its chair- TRAVEL GRANTS: Martin Chusid. 3 JOHN R. CHA LLIS 1907-1974 John R. Challis, justly described Foundation Scholarship enabled him visiting the city without paying a as "the dean of American harpsi to study with the renowned Arnold call on John Challis. chord builders," died at St. Barna Dolmetsch in Hazlemere, England, During these years in Detroit, bas Hospital in New York, Septem through the years 1926-1930. There Challis developed many technical ber 6, I 974, after a long illness. He Challis learned the tonal and mech innovations- such as: split-proof was sixty-seven years old. anical traditions of his life's art. tuning pin blocks, a complete alumi ln the United States, John Challis In the next forty-four years he num frame, moisture resistant jacks, was the first to revive the art of achieved unique success in combin as well as a metal bridge and sound building harpsichords and clavi ing these tonal and musical aspects board. Also, he was the first to re chords. From the beginning, he was with his own inventive approach to vive the harpsichord with a pedal an innovator, and he remained one the mechanical side of his craft. division-played as on the organ. throughout his life. After his return from England, Moving to New York in 1966, His instruments were distinguished Challis started at once to build in Challis continued building his in not alone for musical excellence, struments in a shop over his father's struments at the unlikely address but also for an exceptional finesse store. T hrough the period 1930 to of 133 Fifth Avenue. He preferred of construction. Doubtless, this de 1942 he gave many concerts always to maintain a relatively small rived from his experience, at age throughout the mid-west. Thus, he operation, building a select few in fourteen, in repairing clocks and was the first to bring the old music, struments a year, with the assistance watches for his father, who main played on appropriate instruments, of three or four colleagues. Every tained a jewelry store in Ypsilanti, to the attention of thousands of lis one who has enjoyed the privilege Michigan. As a student at Eastern teners. of playing one of these magnificent Michigan University, Challis became In 1946, Challis moved to De instruments feels a deep sense of interested in 17th and 18th century troit, where he continued his build gratitude to John Challis, and real music. One of his instructors owned ing activities in the more spacious izes his contribution to musical his a Dolmetsch clavichord. Challis was quarters of a large old-fashioned tory. so fascinated by the instrument that house. During this period, no harp he promptly built one for himself. sichordist, clavichordist-or, for that Shortly thereafter, a Dolmetsch matter, organist-would think of -E. Power Biggs

Moravians to Commemorate MMOA Has Drawings of Publications Committee Report First Musical Celebration of Musical Instruments by James Haar I. Publications in Progress Fourth of July in Recording Laurence Libin, Associate Curator at a. The Sammartini index prepared by by Karl Kroeger the Metropolitan Museum of Art's De Bathia Churgin and Newell Jenkins is now partment of Musical Instruments is pleased The "Psalm of Joy of the Congregation in proof and should appear, under the im to announce the availability of technical print of the Harvard University Press, in in Salem For the Peace Celebration of drawings of certain instruments in the July 4, 1783," the music of the first known 1975; collection. Attractive drawings of record b. Hans T ischler's The Earliest Motets, observance of Independence Day by legis ers, flageolets, oboes, and cornetti are lative enactment, will be recorded by the to be published by the Yale University ready for reproduction, and may be or Press, should soon go into production; Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Sym dered by mail or in person from the Book phony Chorale, conducted by Dr. Thor c. A four-volume edition of the works Shop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, of William Billings prepared by Hans Johnson. The recording has been made Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, possible by a $25.000 grant to The Mor Nathan, is advancing toward publication. N. Y. 10028. From time to time new It is hoped that the first volume will be avian Music Foundation by Miss Lily drawings will become available. An up-to Peter of Marvell, Arkansas. The work out during 1976. date listing with prices (mostly below ten 2. New Proposals for Publication will be recorded during the winter and dollars) may be obtained from the Book spring of 1975 with release of the record a. Dragan Plamenac has very nearly Shop or from the Department of Musical completed work on the third and final ing scheduled for later in the year. Instruments. Builders will be interested to The Moravian Music Foundation, in volume of Ockeghem's works. Substantial addition to the recording of the Psalm of know that many instruments have been progress toward publication should be Joy, plans historical and performing edi X-rayed to show internal details; contact made during the coming year; tions of the work to be released during prints of Xrays can be made to special b. With the aid of a subsidy from the Society, the Princeton University Press the Bicentennial year. All inquiries regard order, and a list of Xrays may be ob· ing the Psalm of Joy should be addressed will publish Alejandro Planchart's two tained from the Department at The Met to The Moravian Music Foundation, volume work, The Repertory of Tropes Drawer 2. Salem Station, Winston-Salem, ropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at Winchester. The book should be out in N. C. 27108. at 82nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10028. 1976. 4 Robert Marshall and Lawrence Bernstein Earn Kinkeldey and Einstein A wards At the annual meeting in Washington on November 2, 1974, the Society pre sented its two most prestigious awards, the Kinkeldey Award for the book adjudged best of the year by a committee chaired by Professor Lewis Lockwood and the Einstein Award for the article of the year selected as most outstanding by a committee headed by Paul Henry Lang. The Kinkeldey A ward was earned by Pro fessor Robert Marshall of the University of Chicago for his book, The Composi tional Process of J. S. Bach: A Study of the Autograph Scores of the Vocal Works, published in 1972 by the Princeton Uni versity Press. The Einstein Award went to Professor Lawrence Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania for his article, Robert Marshall Lawrence Bernstein "La Courone et fleur des chansons a University of Chicago ( 1965-1970) and troys: A Mirror of the French Chanson the University of Pennsylvania, where he Musicology at Bellagio in Italy in the Years between Ottaviano is Chairman of the Department of Music. Denis Stevens of Columbia University Petrucci and Antonio Gardano," Journal sends word of a July five-day convention of the American Musicological Society, Recently appointed as Editor of the AMS Journal for the period 1975-1977, Profes XXVI (Spring, 1973), 1-68. on Music and Poetry in Northern Italy, sor Bernstein has been an active member 1485-1620, held at the Conference and Robert Marshall received his under of the Society, serving as Member of the graduate education at Columbia Univer Council, 1970-1972; Program Chairman Study Center in the Villa Serbelloni in sity (A.B. summa cum laude, 1960) where of the Annual Meeting in St. Louis, 1969; Bell agio. Participating in the meeting were his principal instructors were William J. and Member of the Board of Directors, musicologists from America, Great Bri Mitchell, Peter Westergaard and Edward 1974-1975. His recent publications include tian, Switzerland, Italy, and France to R. Lerner; graduate work at Princeton "The Cantus-Firmus Chansons of Tylman gether with six professional musicians as University (MEA 1962, Ph.D. 1968) was Susato," Journal of the American Music mostly with Arthur Mendel but also with ological Society, XXII (Summer, 1969 ), sociated with the Accademia Montever Oliver Strunk, Lewis Lockwood and Mil 197-240; and "The Bibliography of Music diana. Since the maximum number of ton Babbitt. Fulbright grants ( 1962-64) in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae ( 1548) ," guests cannot exceed twenty, these short and Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Acta Musico/ogia, XLV, Fasc, I (Januar conventions offer an unrivalled opportunity Music grants-in-aid ( 1964-66) enabled Juni. 1973 ), 119-163. him to spend three years in Germany for both formal and informal discussion. Professor Bernstein is currently at work ( 1962-65) to conduct archival research in Tn this particular instance it was possible on a book on the .history of the French Berlin, Tiibingen, Marburg, Gottingen, chanson in the Sixteenth century and is for the scholars to listen to a paper in the and Leipzig and consult with the famous completing a study of text underlay in the morning and hear the music reported on Bach scholars, Alfred Diirr, Werner Neu printed sources of the French chanson. mann and Georg von Dadelsen. in the early evening. Guidelines for the Kindeldey and He has been on the faculty of the Uni There was a healthy and vigorous inter Einstein Awards appear in AMS News versity of Chicago since 1966, and As change of information not only among fell er, Volume 11 , Number 2 (September sociate Professor and Chairman of the 15 , 1972) , pages 9 and 11. the musicologists as a group, but also be Department of Music there since 1972. tween them and the performing musicians, During the academic year 1971-72 he was all of whom have been concerned with the Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton Meeting of Renaissance Society interpretation of early music over a con University. The Renaissance Society of America's siderable period of time. One of the main His principal publications include arti North Central Regional Conference will ideas of the convention was to modify the cles for JAMS, Musical Quarterly the prevailing attitude towards the origins of Bach-Jahrbuch and the Oliver Strunk take pl ace at the State University of New opera, usually associated with Florence, Festschrift and numerous music and book York at Buffa'o the weekend of April 18 and to show that the importance of musi reviews for Notes, Musical Quarterly and and 19. The theme of the Conference is cal elements in late sixteenth-century per Die Musikforschung. " Innovations and Traditions in Renais formances of Guarini's II pastor jido In addition to The Compositional Pro should now be taken into account. sance Studies." The format will include cess of J. S. Bach he is the editor or Stud The inter-disciplinary meeting took numerous seminar discussions and panels. ies in R enaissance Music in Honor of place at the invitation of the Rockefeller Arthur Mendel (Kassel: Hackensack, Please address inquiries, suggestions for Foundation. The hosts at the Villa Ser 1974). He is currently completing an edi $e:n inar topics and papers either to Pro belloni were Dr. and Mrs. William C. tion of the cantatas for the 9th and I Oth fessor Edmond Strainchamps, Depart Olson. The participants from the United Sundays after Trinity which will appear rr:ent of Music or to Professor Vic Doyno, States were: Lander MacClintock, Carol as volume l/19 in the Neue Bach-A usgabe. MacClintock, Glenn Watkins, Pierre Tag Cn:s !i _; h Department, State University of Lawrence Bernstein received his Ph.D. mann, Warren Kirkendale, Edmond Strain in 1969 from New York University and New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York champs, Bernard de Surcy and Denis has been a member of the faculty at the 14214. Stevens. 5 Josquin Edition Progress Mozart Festival-Conference, CMS and ASUC Join by Arthur Mendel 1975 In February Meeting The Committee for the preparation of Jan LaRue, reporting as musicologist-in A joint Annual Meeting of the College the New Josquin Edition, appointed by residence for the Mozart Festival-Confer Music Society and the American Society the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziek ence at the Kennedy Center in Washing of University Composers will take place February 13-16, 1975, at the University geschiedenis, consists of four of its own ton last May, stressed that the AMS plan ned to continue this type of intersection of Iowa in Iowa C ity. Special sessions of members (Chris Maas, Chairman. Myros between performing and scholarly events "Schenker's Theory in the World of law Antonowycz, Willem Elders, Rene B. in the upcoming Haydn Festival-Confer Teacher and Student," "The Composer as Lenaerts), three members nominated by ence (October, 1975), The general pat College Teacher" and "Grantsmanship: the International Musicological Society tern of these events, including the concept the Care and Feeding of Performer, Scholar and Composer" will feature such (Ludwig Finscher, Brian Jeffery, Martin of a musicologist-in-residence and the in terrelation of discussions and programs, noted speakers as Charles Burkhart, Mur Staehelin) and three members nominated can be adapted to a variety of musical ray Gould, Roy Tavis, Richmond Browne by the AMS (Howard Mayer Brown, events in all parts of the country. and J. K. Randall. Concerts will be by Charles Hamm, Arthur Mendel). It is Shortly before Christmas a summary the Mesq uakle Indians in a song and dance re-examining all the premises on which a of the discussions at the Mozart Festival demonstration, the Blackearth Percussion Ensemble. the University of Iowa Orches complete edition should be based, con Conference will be published, obtainable witr.out cost from the Department of tra and the University of Iowa Center for vinced that now that we have all or nearly Music, New York University, 268 Wav New Music. Other noteworthy events will all the works of Josquin available in some erly Building. New York, N. Y. 10003. include a luncheon-meeting for the CMS's form, it is important not how soon the For a statement about the origins and active Committee on the Status of Women, new edition can be prepared but how well. goals of the Conference, see the AMS a presentation by Richard Bunger on the The second annual meeting of the Com Newsletter, August, 1974, pages I and 8. relationship between certain avante-garde mittee (August 12-15, 1974) regretfully techniques and the physical well-being of accepted the resignation of Edward E. the piano, individual CMS interest group Lowinsky, forced by the pressure of his International Haydn sessions in theory, music education music other commitments. It weicomed Howard ology, ethnomusicology and performance, M. Brown in his place, and voted unanim Conference Scheduled book and music materials exhibits, and ously to make Professor Lowinsky an by Alfred Mann tours of the University of Iowa's electronic honorary member. The International Haydn Conference, music facility. The meeting will adjourn It then proceeded to consider various planned by the American Musicological at noon on February 16. after · a conclud topics on which members had agreed at Society in conjunction with a Haydn Fes ing address by a noted speaker. For further the !973 meeting to prepare reports: pos tival at John F. Kennedy Center and an information contact: Mr. Arthur R. Tol sible computer aids to the Committee's nounced in the last AMS Newsletter, has lefson, National Publicity Chairman, Col work (Norbert Boker-Heil, Thomas Ha ll ); been scheduled for the week from Satur lege Music Society, UMBC, 5401 Wilkens mensuration in Josquin (Mendel); list of day, October 4 to Sunday, October 12 , Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21228. all known sources of writings on Josquin 1975.A..coo-rdinatl0n ··of performances and works by or attributed to Josquin scholarly sessions has been planned by a Bartok Research Conference (Hamm); bibliography of writings on joint committee under the direction of Josquin since Burney (Bonnie J. Black Professor Jans Peter Larsen of the Uni Announced for October, 1975 burn) ; various editorial s u g g e s t i o n s versity of Copenhagen. The main themes In commemoration of the thirtieth an ( Maas); suggestions for order of con of roundtables, lectures, and discussions niversary of the composer, the Depart tents in the New Josquin Edition (Elders. will be documentation, performance prac ment of Music, University of Pittsburgn, Maas; Van Benthem,); draft transcriptions tice, and analysis of form and style. Mem will sponsor a week-long Conference-Semi (Finscher, Staehelin, Hamm, Jeffery and bers of the AMS who wish to submit nar on Bela Bartok. Discussions will focus Van Benthem) : collection and description papers should send their material in dup on the availability of sketches and other of manuscript sources ( Hamm) ; prospec licate, addressed to the office of the Haydn relevant materials in the Bartok Archives tive editors. Festival-Conference 1975, c/ o Howard in the United States and Hungary; the It was decided that: ( I) proposed or Serwer, I 0 I Primrose Street, Washington, relative merits of different analytical tech derings of contents would be published in D. C. 20015, by April 15. Papers by stu niques of his music; and the question of the next issue of the Tijdschrift voor Ned dent members are- invited but should authenticity in performance as determined erlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, and com be accompanied by a brief endorsement by sketches, personal performing scores ments of readers invited; {2) the Com from a faculty member of the respective and tapes. Special consideration will be mittee aims to draw up a set of editorial department. given Bartok's pioneering achievements in guidelines within which prospective editors the field s of European and Asian Ethno will be asked to agree to work; (3) fi Liszt Symposium Announced musicology. Topics relating to these areas nances permitting, all sources for all will be developed in seminar meetings and works to be included in the edition will For Eisenstadt lecture demonstrations by leading Bartok be coded for computer according to the From the 20th until the 25th of Octo scholars, including the directors of the system outlined by Thomas Hall in the ber, 1975 . in Eisenstadt in Bergenland, a Bartok Archive at Cedarhurst, New York, paper he read at the November 2. 1974, European Liszt Symposium will take and Budapest, Hungary. Those interested session of the AMS devoted to "Critical place, during which leading Liszt scholars in participating are asked to contact the Editions of Renaissance Music Based on will report. Works of Franz Liszt will be coordinator of the Conference, Denes R. Multiple Sources." in order to make use performed during the week. The scholarly Bartha. Mellon Professor of Music, Uni of his programs for variant-listing, colla direction of the public sessions will be un versity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl tion of sources, construction of stemmata, der the supervision of Professor Dr. Wolf vania 15260. Students involved in Bartok etc., and to permit generalizations about gang Suppan, Graz. Information may be research, particularly those engaged in or scribal practice and other aspects of the obtained from the European Liszt Center, contemplating dissertations on Bartok, are sources. Gartengasse 12, A-7000 Eisenstadt. especially urged to attend. 6 \ ~

Collegium Activities in only out of a sense of debt to history but Alfred Einstein Award also because of the richness of vowel Washington sounds and acute sense of tonality to by Ruth Steiner by Gilbert Blount which the instrument sensitizes the player. Membet"s of the Society are reminded Those who came to the Washington During his harpsichord workshop, James of the guidelines for this award, first pub convention looking for a variety of Col Weaver discussed the differences in octave lished in the NEWSLETTER of September, legium activities found them in abundance. span, length of keyheads, lightness of 1972. A well balanced series of instrumental and touch, use of expressive devices, painting vocal workshops directed by noted auth and ornamentation of outer case, etc. I. The Alfred Einstein Award will honor orities in their respective areas, polished found in various historical instruments. each year the author of the article on a performances of the music of Dufay and He argued that much harpsichord music musicological subject deemed by a com was imitative or derivative, and that his contemporaries by several ensembles, mittee of scholars to be the most signifi and a Saturday afternoon panel geared to French music, perhaps better than any cant by a young scholar who is a citizen the needs of the developing Collegium di other, tended to draw from the instru rector, all combined to provide those in ment certain idiomatic qualities not read or permanent resident of the United States attendance with a broad cross section of ily found in the otherwise intrinsically or Canada published in a periodical dur early music experiences. meritorius harpsichord music of Bach, ing the preceding calendar year. A "young Scarlatti, and Handel. Edmund Bowles's percussion workshop, scholar" shall be defined as one who at focusing on the history, construction and Following a brief general meeting, Bruce the time of publication has not reached Baroque timpani, featured his own taped Bellingham presented a p&per titled The his thirty-sixth birthday nor has held a performances of basic kettle drum Sch/ag Development of an Historical Instrument manieren. The lute workshop concentrated Collection which pulled together significant Ph.D. longer than five years. "Periodical" on recent scholarly editions of lute and information on instrument societies, jour shall be defined as a serial publication ap vihuela music, comprehensive lists being nals treating early instruments, early in pearing at least once a year in any coun compiled by Peter Danner and Ronald strument dealers and makers (American try and in any language. Purcell, and on music for lute ensemble. and European) together with an indication Featured were performances by Professors of their products and relative prices, 2. The Alfred Einstein Award shall con Danner and Purcell, together with Lyle sources of replacement strings and reeds, sist of the sum of $400 and a certificate, Nordstrom, Thomas Heck, and Deborah etc. Gilbert Blount made available a list signed by the President, citing the name Minkin, of an assortment of effective and of selected compositions that a Collegium of the recipient and the work. rarely heard lute ensemble compositions. director might want to consider for his In his voice workshop on Dowland lute ensemble and a list of recommended musi 3. The article shall be selected by a songs, Russell Oberlin perceptively and cal editions that a Collegium with a lim committee of three appointed ·by the Pres sensitively evaluated the performances of ited library acquisitions budget would find ident in consultation with the Board of Dowland songs by visiting Collegium sing serviceable. He then read a paper attempt Directors, one member to be designated ers. Professor George Houle's report on ing to summarize the current status of the the Baroque oboe was scholarly and to Collegium M usicum as a study-perfor as chairman. The Committee shall be the point. His critical measurements of mance institution on the American college known as the Alfred Einstein Award Com oboe reeds, arrived at after extensive read campus. mittee, and its members shall serve over ing and experimentation, will be extremely lapping three-year terms, each retiring Performances of the music of Dufay useful to the oboist confronting his instru chairman to be succeeded by the member and his contemporaries were provided by ment's predecessor, and Houle's demon with the longest service. strations on various baroque oboes re several capable ensembles whose varied programming contributed measurably to (The present committee members and vealed him a player of considerable ac their terms of office are: Ruth Steiner, complishment. the early music experiences enjoyed at the convention. The American Early Music Chairman, one year; Leonard B. Meyer, Don Smithers presented a slide illus two years; Joel L. Sheveloff, three years.) trated iconographical history of the vari Consort, directed by Gilbert Blount, was 4. The chairman or another member of able pitch straight trumpet, the coiled and joined by a quartet from the University of Texas in an evening concert of Spanish, the Committee will normally announce slide trumpet, and the sackbut up to the and confer the Award at the Annual Busi 18th century. He discussed the problems German, English, and Franco-Flemish ness Meeting of the Society. Inability to of brass instrumentation in Bach's early music of the fifteenth century. Mary Ann attend the meeting shall not disqualify a cantatas, including the specifications for Ballard's Collegium from the University nominee for the Award. tromba di tirarsi, corno di tirarsi, and of Pennsylvania ably rendered a series of cornetto, and he demonstrated various his vocal and instrumental pieces dating from PLEASE NOTE THAT the present com torical solutions to the problems of play the late fourteenth and early fifteenth cen mittee would be glad to hear, preferably ing certain pitches in the harmonic series turies, while the Brandeis Collegium un before May 1, 1975, from scholars who better in tune. Bernard Krainis surveyed der the direction of James Olesen focused published articles during 1974 that may basic recorder techniques, and Judith on the music of Dufay. be eligible for the award. A letter may Davidoff, with the aid of members of the A large turn-out was treated to a ves be sent to any member of the commit New York Consort of Viols, considered pers service performed in St. Matthew's tee: it should give the author's year of techniques whereby the Collegium director Cathedral jointly by Paul Traver's Univer birth, and either the year in which he re could deal effectively with the problems of sity of Maryland Chamber Singers and ceived his Ph.D. or a statement that he combining modern and historical bowed the men from the A Cappella Choir of does not have this degree. Articles in per instruments in the same ensembles until Catholic University, Rev . James Aylward, iodicals that members of the committee such time as a sufficient gamba capability Conductor. The Saturday afternoon per do not ordinarily read might otherwise fail is available on the campus. formance laboratory featured a presenta to be considered; and it is often difficult Shelley Gruskin talked of the flute as tion of problems of tempo and mensura to learn the ages of the contributors to a wind instrument capable of a relatively tion in the music of Dufay by Alejandro periodicals. The members of the commit high degree of nuance even very early in Planchart and the Capella Cordina and tee ask this reluctantly, for modesty may its history, and that the modern Collegium problems in text underlay performing di make it difficult for some to do; but it player, as an objective craftsman, should rectly from Dufay sources by Bernard would help significantly to insure that consider working with an early flute not Bailly de Surcy and the Musica Mensurata. the award is made fairly. 7 Report of the Organizing any of the panels to Professor Lockwood continuing research in the form of papers before June, 197 5. No free paper~ will be and articles for upcoming national and in Committee, IMS Congress, accepted~ only such as deal with the an ternational meetings and for the special Berkeley, 1977 nounced topics. Proposals may be of a issue of the·Journal. In regard to the lat main paper, of short papers, of participa ter, it is our understanding that the editor by Claude V. Palisca tion in discussion, or a signal to the chair of the Journal will need the completed The AMS Planning Committee for the man of interest and expertise in the area papers by May, 1975, for inclusion in the IMS Congress of 1977 in Berkeley has ex of a panel. 1976 issue. panded to become the Organizing Com ..__ Although many of the traditional areas mittee of the IMS. It consists of Claude of concern to musicologists will not be V. Palisca, Chairman, George Buelow, represented. the Congress should arouse Travel Grants From ACLS editor of the Congress Report, Donald considerable interest- attendance of at As in the past, the ACLS invites schol Grout, Alvin Johnson, Treasurer, Israel J. least I ,500 is estimated-and will un ars to apply for travel grants to attend reg Katz, representing SEM, Lewis Lockwood, doubtedly turn the thoughts of many in ex officio as Chairman of the Program new directions, stimulating hopefully in ularly scheduled congresses and confer Committee; Lawrence Moe. as Chairman vigorated interdisciplinary research and ences of international scholarl y organiza of the Local Committee, William S. New teaching. tions held Ol!tside of the United States, man, and Samuel Pogue. The Local Sub Canada or Mexico. A limited number of committee consists of Lawrence Moe. Chairman, Vincent Duckles, and Daniel Bicentennial Committee awards are also available for officers of Heartz. Plans For 1976 international scholarly associations and The dates of the Congress will be the members of editorial boards meeting by Cynthia Hoover week of August 21-27, 1977. The AMS, abroad. For further information and ap The AMS Bicentennial Committee (com and probably the SEM, will forego their plications contact the AMS-ACLS Liaison annual meetings that year, so that this posed of H. Wiley Hitcock, Richard Craw Officer, Martin Chusid, Department of will serve as both the national and the ford, Eileen Southern, and Cynthia international meeting of the year. AMS Hoover, Chairman) has been working on Music, New York University, Washington members are urged to join the lMS so three major efforts to mark the observ Square, New York, New York 10003. that they can participate fully in th at Con ance of America's Bicentennial. Briefly, gress. A blank for this purpose is in these efforts are: cluded in this Newsletter (See page 9). I) the publication of a critical edi UCLA Hosting Toch Festival The 1977 international Congress of the tion of the complete works of William A series of sixteen concerts which began IMS will in many ways be a new scene. Billings, the 18th century Boston com last November and will continue until poser whose six collections of vocal In concept and attendance it is intended May, 1975, is commemorating the tenth to be the most global and pancthnic of music were originally published be any international congress so far. For the tween 1770-1794. This publication, ed year since the death of Los Angeles com first time it will have a central theme: ited by Hans Nathan, will be the first poser, Ernst Toch. The Festival is being "Interdisciplinary Horizons in the Study critical edition of the works of any coordinated by the Toch Archive of the of Musical Traditions, East and We:.t." It American compo~er UCLA Music Library and includes signifi will draw attention to the potential ap 2) the publication of an entire issue cant selections from the entire range of plication of methods and knowledge from (or more precisely, number) of the so other disciplines of the humanities and so ciety's Journal devoted to American Toch's musical legacy: orchestral, opera cial sciences to the study of music and topics. tic, choral, chamber and solo works. Spe it will bring the historical and ethnomusic 3) empha~i s upon American music cial emphasis is being placed on the music ological approaches into a single focus. In at the 1976 meetings. of his Los Angeles period. this the planners are pursuing the genius Most of our efforts during this past year Further information may be obtained by loci of Berkeley, midway between Europe have been concentrated on the publication contacting Marsha Berman at the UCLA and the Orient and as near to the mid of the critical edition of the works of Music Library, Room 1102, Schoenberg point between North and South as we William Billings. From November through Hall, 405 Hil gard Avenue, Los Angeles, would choose for comfort's sake in Aug January we spent considerable time deter California 09924. ust. Berkeley promises the coolest Aug· mining the guidelines, format, and produc Music to be performed during the 1975 ust weather of any Congress so far. tion schedule · for this edition. Richard portion of the Festival includes: Notturno, The Program Committee met in Basel Crawford was chosen to act as liaison be Op. 77, USC Symphony Orchestra, Daniel in April under the chairmanship of Lewis tween our committee and the editor of Lewis, conducting, Bovard Auditorium, Lockwood. Its composition reflects the the edition, Hans Nathan, In this capacity USC, January 15, 8:00p.m.: "Geographi geographical expansiveness of the theme: and because of his many contributions to cal Fugue" and "Valse" for Spoken Genevieve Thibault de C h a m b u r e the edition, Mr. Crawford has been de Chorus, UCLA Madrigal Singers, Donn (France), Gerald Abraham ( Britain), signated as an editorial consultant. The Weiss conducting, Little Theatre, Mt. Ludwig Finscher (West Germany), Dan edition will appear in four volumes, the Saint Mary's College, February 23, 3 p.m.; iel Heartz (U.S.), Mantle Hood (U.S.), first scheduled to appear in the fall of An Evening of Chamber Music, the Audi Joe Ma~cda ( Philippines), J. H. Kwabena 1976. The musical material should be torium at Immaculate Heart College, Nkctia (Ghana), Boris Jar us to v sky ready for the engraver by the end of the March 12, 8:00 p.m.; The "Big Ben" (U.S.S.R.), and Claude Palisca (U.S.), year and we plan for the introductory text Variations, Op. 62, Los Angeles Philhar ex officio. It drew up a list of twenty-five material to be completed by mid-February. monic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta conduct topics for panels. These were published in T he Society is publishing this edition ing, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the the August Newsletter and will appear in jointly with the Colonial Society of Mas Music Center, May I and 2, 8:30 p.m.; twenty-eight other periodicals in fourteen sachusetts with some financial assistance and the Third Symphony, Op. 75, Cali countries. Sixteen of the chairmen have al from the Sonneck Memorial Fund of the fornia State University at Northridge ready accepted. Music Division of the Library of Con Orchestra, Lawrence Christianson con AMS members and others are invited gress. ducting, May 13 (time and location to to submit proposals for participation in The Committee is encouraging new and be announced). 8 Chapter Fund Committee Underlying the entire idea of the Com Fulbright-Hays Awards for Report for 1974 mittee is the principle that money allocated must serve to benefit the chapter as a Senior Scholars by P aul Revitt whole. Specifically, the original guidelines Applicatiops will be accepted this spring During the year between the National stipulated that only partial expenses would for more than 550 university lecturing and Society's meetings in Chicago, in 1973. be approved by the Committee. The policy advanced research awards during 1976- and in Washington, D. C., in 1974, the evolved has been that of the well-known 1977 in over seventy-five countries under Chapter Fund Committee, slightly exceed practice of "matching funds." The original the senior Fulbright-Hays program, the ing its budget, authorized $1,071.14 in guidelines also stipulated that student rep seven expenditures to six chapters. No re resentatives were entitled to financial help, Council for International Exchange of quest was denied, but some reduction was and current policy strengthened by a re Scholars announced recently. Specialists in necessary in two instances. cent directive from the Board of Direc the fine and applied arts who are U. S. Requests are usually in one of two tors recognizes this form of aid. In the citizens and have a doctorate or college categories. One is to pay the expenses of past years the Committee has been gen a chapter meeting, usually to defray the erous with these student requests, but in teaching experience are invited to indicate transportation costs of a guest speaker, the event that they reach the limit of the their interest in an award by completing and less often to cover incidental costs budget, modification of the general policy a simple registrat ion form, available on related to facilities required at the meet of half of the transportation cost may per request from ·the Senior Fulbright·Hays ing. The general policy is to provide money force be developed. T he Committee does Program, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N. for half the expense. Five of the expendi not fund clerical expenses of chapter W., Washington, D. C. 20418. Registrants tures during the past year were for the management (i.e., stationery supplies, post will be sent a detailed announcement of purpose of chapter meetings. office charges, etc.). the 1976-77 program in April. July I , 1975 The other type of allocation is assist Requests must be made in the name of is the deadline for applying for research ance in paying the cost of sending the a chapter by one of its officers and should awards and it is also the suggested date student representative of his respective be addressed to: Paul J. Revitt, Chairman, for filing for lectureships. Chapter to the annual meeting of the Chapter Fund Committee, Conservatory Society. The general policy is to provide of Music. University of Missouri at Kan Visiting Foreign Scholar half of the cost of transportation. Two of sas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. The the expenditures during the past year were request, especially for student representa Hugh MacDonald of Oxford University for this purpose. tive transportation, should be documented writes that he will be in the United States The chapters which benefitted from the by a receipt of ticket stub, or, if for chap in the early part of April, 1975, and Chapter Fund were the Greater New York ter expense, by an itemized estimate of would be interested in lecturing, presum Chapter, South-Central Chapter, South anticipated costs. For clarity in bookeep east Chapter ( twice), Northern and South ing, the check from the Treasurer's Office ably on Berlioz. His address: F aculty of ern California Chapters (jointly), and will be made out in the name of the chap Music, Oxford University, 32 Holywell Southern California (individually) . ter. Street, Oxford OX! 3SL.

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Southern California Enjoys 1975 NEH Summer Seminars The deadline for submitting applications is February 18, 1975, and all necessary Charles Hamm, current Past President For College Teachers information may be obtained from the Di of AMS, spo~e at four universities in During the summer of 1975, the Na vision of Fellowships, National Endow southern California last spring on the ment for the Humanities, 806 15th Street, tional Endowment for the Humanities will topics "The Classification and History of N.W., Washington, D. C. 20506. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music of the offer sixty-two seminars for college teach Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" and ers in various disciplines of the humani Penn Announces Institute "American Popular Music of the Nine ties and humanistic social sciences at uni teenth Century." His appearances were versities across the country. The purpose For Medieval Performance made possible by a grant from the Na of this program is to offer opportunities A Summer Institute for the Performance tional Chapters Fund with contributions for faculty members of undergraduate and of Medieval Music will be held at the from the Southern California Chapter of two-year colleges to work with distin University of Pennsylvania, June 15-18, AMS and the four host schools: San Diego !Wished scholars in their fields at institu 197 5. Workshops in the performance of State University, The University of Cali tions with libraries suitable for mature plainchant and polyphony of the Notre fornia at San Diego, UCLA and The Uni study. Through research, reflection and Dame School will be offered to musicians, versity of California at Santa Barbara. discussion with the seminar director and preferably those with some experience in their colleagues in a seminar atmosphere, the performance of early music. Com oarticipants will sharpen their understand plementing the workshops will be a series Summer Workshop in Musical ing and improve their ability to convey of lectures on the repertory to be per Iconography their knowledge to college students. formed and various musicological prob Twelve college teachers will be selected lems associated therewith. The Music Department of the Univer to attend each seminar and each one se The Institute will be held under the di sity of New Hampshire announces a Sum lected will receive a stipend of $2,000 for rection of Dr. Konrad Ruhland, Music mer Workshop in Musical Iconography by a tenure of two months, plus a housing Director of the Capella antiqua of Munich. Mary Rasmussen, Associate Professor of and travel allowance of $250. The three The musicological staff will include Pro Music. seminars in Music are: Music in Medieval fessors Thomas Connolly and Norman Sessions will be held daily from August Life and Culture, 1100-1400 (at Ohio State Smith of the University of Pennsylvania 18-22, 1975. Two academic credits will be University, Richard Hoppin, Seminar Di and Professor 1 anet Knapp of Vassar available at both the undergraduate and rect'Jr, School of Music, OSU, Columbus, College. Instruction in performance will graduate levels, or the course may be Ohio 4321 0); Perofrmance Practices in be offered by Shelley Gruskin (medieval audited. Beethoven's Music (at the University of winds), Mary Anne Ballard (vielle and North Carolina, William S. Newman, rebec) and Derwood Crocker (plucked in For further details and registration pro- Seminar Director, UNC, Chapel Hill, struments). Mr. Crocker will also lecture cedures, write to: North Carolina 27514); and Musics in on instrument making. The Compleat Musical Iconographer America and North India: An Ethnomus For further information write: Ms. Department of Music icological Study (at Brown University, Mary Anne Ballard, Director, Collegium Paul Creative Arts Center Bonnie Wade, Seminar Director, Brown musicum, Department of Music, Univer University of New Hampshire University, Providence, Rhode Island sity of Pennsylvania, 201 S. 34th Street, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 02912. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174.

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