AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                   25 a,b

Oliver Strunk

With Vivian Perlis

in Grotta Ferrata, Italy

August 8, 1973

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                              pp. 1-16

Library of Congress--Otto Kinkeldey--studied in Berlin--separate music libraries versus university libraries under one roof--founding of Music Library Association--[Charles] Burney on music libraries--appointment at Princeton--publication of MLA--library at Princeton--library of Franciscans in Grotta Ferrata--monastery of the Greek Rite in Grotta Ferrata--libraries organized by accession number--teaching at Princeton--founding of AMS.

Side b                                                                                                              pp. 16-32

Grotta Ferrata Library--AMS early meetings--AMS and Society for Ethnomusicology--students and musicology ca. 1970--Princeton and AMS during WWII--early years of AMS and JAMS (Journal of the American Musicological Society)--value of society meetings--Hindemith--Strunk's publications.