Papers of the American Musicological Society, 1941

Papers of the American Musicological Society

ANNtIAL MEETING, 1941

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

Edited by GUST A VE REESE The publication of this volume was made possible by a grant of funds to the American Musicological Society by the American Council of Learned" Societies.

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First Session (Held jointly with the Music Teachers' National Association) MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1941, AT 10: 30 PAGE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS-HOPES AND WISHES • • • • • Otto Kinkeldey, Cornell University• FRENCH PATTERNS AND THEIR READING IN BACH'S SECULAR CLAVIER Music 8 Y ella Pessl, Columbia University

THE RECOGNITION oF SONATA FoRM BY THEORISTS OF THE 18TH AND I 9TH CENTURIES • , • , • , , • . • , , • 2 I William S. Newman, Cleveland, Ohio• POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CENSORSHIP OF OPERA • • • • • 30 Walter H. Rubsamen, University of California, Los Angeles

WHAT Is A Mus1cAL IDEA? 43 Donald Ferguson, University of Minnesota

Second Session

MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1941, AT 2! 15

BRAHMs's KNOWLEDGE OF BACH'S Musrc • • ' • • • • 50 Raymond Kendall, Dartmouth College• THE CONCEPT OF PHYSICAL AND MUSICAL SPACE IN THE RENAIS- SANCE • • • • • , , • • · , • • 57 Edward Lowinsky, New.York, N. Y. 111 TuPYNAMBA MELODIES IN JEAN DE LERY's "HrsTOIRE D'UN VOYAGE F AICT EN LA TERRE DU BRESIL" • • • • . 8 5 Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo, Rio de Janeiro ·

EPHRATA AND BETHLEHEM IN PENNSYLVANIA: A CoMPARISON • 97 Hans David, New York University• SECULAR Music IN THE UNITED STATES 150 YEARS AGO 105 William Treat Upton, Washington, D. C. Contents-Continued Third Session

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1941, AT 9:45 PAGE PuRCELL's MASQUE IN Timon of Athens . 1 1 2 Benjamin Swalin, University of North Carolina HEBREW Music THEORY oF THE MIDDLE AGES 125 Eric Werner, Hebrew Union College

GEMINIAN1's ScHEMATIC FINGERBOARD . 1 37 Abe Pepinsky, University of Minnesota• AN UNKNOWN VIOLIN TABLATURE OF THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY 144 Dragan Plamenac, New York, N. Y. THE Music OF THE ITALIAN THEATRE AT PARI.s, 1682-97 158 Donald Grout, Cambridge, Mass.•

• In 1941. Present address indicated in body of this book.