Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith

Smith was chief of NYPL music division from 1931-1959. Contents: Introduction / Israel J. Katz Carleton Sprague Smith: Man of the musicological world (An affectionate reminiscence) / Barry S. Brook Carleton Sprague Smith / Gilberto Freyre Tribute to Carleton Sprague Smith / Sir Yehudi Menuhin A salute to Carleton Sprague Smith / Nicolas Slonimsky Libraries Carleton Sprague Smith and the shaping of a great library: Harbinger of a center for the performing arts (Recollections of a staff member) / Sydney Beck The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center: A personal view of its evolution and essence (1965-1985) / David Hall The Chichele Plowdens and the British Museum: Footnotes to a musical bequest / Alec Hyatt King Carleton Sprague Smith and the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library / Francis Mason One approach to the development of a dance archive: The Dance Collection in the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts (The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center) / Genevieve Oswald Latin American music bibliography / Robert M. Stevenson Some personal observations on the training of music librarians (By way of reminiscences) / Ruth Watanabe History Catalan children's games in a Louisiana Spanish community / Samuel G. Armistead The Aula do comércio in the reforms of Pombal in eighteenth-century Brazil / Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça The practice of medicine in early modern Portugal: The role and social status of the físico-mor and the surgião-mor / Francis A. Dutra The term bandeira in the history of Brazil / Américo Jacobina Lacombe Spain and Portugal: Contrasts and comparisons over the past decade / Kenneth Maxwell. Performing arts "Aquesta inmensa cítara": An aesthetics of musical ecstasy in Fray Luis de León's (1527-1691) Ode to Salinas / Angel Alcalá An encounter with South Indian violin playing / Howard Boatwright Concerning Beethoven's Grande Fugue, Op. 133 / Joseph Braunstein Music of the sixteenth-century French settlement in Florida / Wiley L. Housewright Some observations on Goudimel's psalm settings / Eleanor Lawry Three Brazilian poems / Jean R. Longland James Alexander's collection of country dances (New York, 1730) / Kate Van Winkle Keller Tapirapé Indian music in Central Brazil: A memoir / Charles Wagley "Excuse me" : A dance tune of John Dowland's making / John M. Ward John Goodman (1778-1848) of Frankfort, Kentucky : Musician, music teacher, musical instrument maker, engraver, and first publisher of sheet music west of the Allegheny Mountains / Richard J. Wolfe Appendices Appendix I. Letter (dated August 20, 1939) to C. S. Smith from Romain Rolland Appendix II. C. S. Smith: A chronology Appendix III. C. S. Smith: A topical bibliography of his collected writings Appendix IV. Musical compositions dedicated to or involved in some manner with C. S. Smith