Synopses & Reviews
The scope of John F. Ohl's musicological interests and influence is honored in this wide-ranging collection of essays. Arranged chronologically by subject, the essays cover the history of Western music from the liturgical chants of the Middle Ages to the nineteenth-century symphony and the tonal innovations of the twentieth century. The collection also includes a biography of John F. Ohl, a bibliography of Ohl's publications, and an essay on Ohl by George Frederick Handel.
Synopsis
A Compendium of American Musicology is a collection of thirteen fascinating essays in three fields of musicology: chant studies, music from the Renaissance to the Classic Era, and source studies from the Romantic and Postromantic periods. This collection by thirteen esteemed musicologists was compiled and edited in memory of John F. Ohl, whose career spanned study and work at Harvard, Fisk, and Northwestern Universities. He founded Northwestern's Department of Music in 1951.
Arranged chronologically by subject, the essays cover the history of Western music from the liturgical chants of the Middle Ages to the nineteenth-century symphony and the tonal innovations of the twentieth century. The collection also includes a biography of John F. Ohl, a bibliography of Ohl's publications, and an essay on Ohl by George Frederick Handel."
About the Author
Enrique Alberto Arias was an Associate Professor at DePaul University's School of New Learning and president of Ars Musica Chicago. He died in 2004.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
John F. Ohl's Biography
Enrique Alberto Arias
Part I: Chant Studies
Exploring a Little-Known Chant Source: Provins, Bibl. Mun. MS
Theodore Karp
Sanctus Tropes in South-Italian Manuscripts, A.D. 10000-1250
John Boe
The First-Mode Gradual Salvum fac servum: Modal Practice Reflected in a Chant That Begins on B Flat
Jefferey Wasson
Part II: Studies in Music from the Renaissance through the Classic Era
The Use of Open Score as a Solo Keyboard Notation in Italy ca. 1530-1714
James Ladewig
Northwestern University's Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Roman Cantatas
William V. Porter
The Common Sense School and the Science of Music in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: A Look at John Holden's Essay Towards a Rational System of Music
Leslie Ellen Brown
Reflections from a Cracked Mirror: Madness in Music and Theory of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—An Overview
Enrique Alberto Arias
The String Trio Version of Haydn's Princess Esterházy Sonatas (Hob.XVI:40-42): Authenticity and Authorship
A. Peter Brown
Part III: Source and Genre Studies in Romantic and Postromantic Music
Robert Schumann's Exercice and the Toccata, Opus 7
Richard D. Green
The Germanic Program Symphony in the Nineteenth Century (to 1914)
F. E. Kirby
Alban Berg and Mahler's Eighth Symphony
Susan M. Filler
The Importation o fWestern Music to China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Kuo-Huang Han
Sleep, Sleep—Perchance to Dream
Edith Borroff
Notes on Contributors