Author: WESTRUP, JACK ALLAN (1904-1975)
Title: Essays presented to Egon Wellesz. [Celebrating his eightieth birthday, and as a tribute to his scholarship] / edited by Jack Westrup. [Illustrated and with musical notes.]
Description: Oxford: Clarendon Press 1966. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.Physical description; viii. 188 p. ; 4 to. Physical description; viii. 188 pages : music. plates. tables. ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Essays are in English. French or German. Contents; The rediscovery of Byzantine music / by H.W.J. Tillyard -- Byzantine composers in MS. Athens 2406 / by M. Velimirovic -- The genesis of the liturgical sanctus / by E. Werner -- Sakraler Gesang und Musik in den Schriften Gregors des Grossen / fon H. Angles -- The problem of the old Roman chant / by P. Peacock -- 'De glorioso officio. dignitate Apostolica. '(Amalarius) : Zum Aufbau der Gross-Alleluia in den Pap¨stlichen Ostervespern / von J. Smits van Waesberghe -- Les chants de la Missa Greca de Saint-Denis / par M. Huglo -- Essai analytique sur la formation de l'Octoechos latin / par J. Chailley -- An english liquescent neume / by J.D. Bergsagel -- A hitherto unpublished letter of Claudio Monteverdi / by A. Rosenthal -- Il Tamerlano de Giuseppe Clemente Bonomi / par D. Cvetko -- Expression and revision in Gluck's Orfeo and Alceste / by F.W. Sternfeld -- Vincenzo Righinis Oper Alcide al Bivio / von H. Federhofer -- Wagnerian elements in pre-Wagnerian opera / by H.F. Redlich -- Bizet's la jolie fille de perth / by J. Westrup -- The operas of Serov / by G. Abraham. Subjects; Wellesz. Egon (1885-1974). Music. Chants. Opera. Music - Addresses. essays. lectures. Opera - Addresses. essays. lectures. Chant (Plainsong. Gregorian. etc.). Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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