Libraries, history, diplomacy, and the performing arts : essays in honor of Carleton Sprague Smith
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Libraries, history, diplomacy, and the performing arts : essays in honor of Carleton Sprague Smith
（Festschrift series, no. 9）
Pendragon Press in cooperation with the New York Public Library, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Carleton Sprague Smith and Brazil / Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo
- The state as impresario / Goodwin Cooke
- The Spanish Institute, New York (1966-1982) / Clinton John Everett
- U.S. interest and UN diplomacy / Ernest A, Gross
- The importance of the bi-national and multi-national concept in world cultural relations / Joseph John Jova
- The Brazilian Institute, New York (1958-1963) / Jordan M. Young
- "Aquesta inmensa cítara" : an aesthetics of musical ecstasy in Fray Luis de León's (1527-1591) 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
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For almost three decades (1931-59) Carleton Sprague Smith served as Chief of the Music Division of The New York Public Library. Utilizing his training as historian, musicologist, and musician, together with his exceptional administrative and linguistic skills, he helped develop one of the world's greatest music research libraries. As early as 1932, he drew up the initial concept of a Library-Museum of the Performing Arts, which ultimately materialized at Lincoln Center. Smith also served as President of both the Music Library Association
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