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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: What sort of seasonal music was on your mind there at the Monasterio?                                                                 ENQUIRING IN ENCINITAS “Casta diva”—you know, mistletoe and all that. My… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. CHERS LECTEURS, CHÈRES LECTRICES: The photograph is of Patty Smith Hill (1868–1946), principal of the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School and lyricist of “Happy Birthday To You.” Here, too, are her older sister… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. CHERS LECTEURS, CHÈRES LECTRICES: The first photograph is of Claude Palisca, a former president of the American Musicological Society. It appeared in the Kentucky Kernel, 5 May 1959, in an item publicizing… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Do you know who these gentlemen are?                                                           BOB J. IN BRUNSWICK  DEAR BOB: Yes. Do you? Answers (and source citations) tomorrow.                                                             ABBÉ … Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: I am 8 years old and have been dancing in The Nutcracker since my first pink tutu. Some of my little friends say Tchaikovsky is passé and musicology… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: I was recently working at the Boston Public Library and spotted fifteen familiar names hewn in the stone of the Central Library Building. But who are Reynolds… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Anent the fracas in these pages on The Classical Style: were there musicologist-nerds before What’s Up, Doc? (1972)?                                                                  LUMIÈRE, aîné & cadet MESSIEURS:            Yes. Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: From time to time your namesake used to publish her favourite recipes. Have you any?                                                                 S. COFFIER MONSIEUR: I am reminded of the holiday feast offered… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Anent Mark Clague’s post on the Star-Spangled Banner, I note that the Star Spangled Music Foundation and blog are administered by one Susan Key. Any… Read More

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: What does the W. W. stand for, and who was this M. D. Herter Norton, anyway?                                                 H. M. ODHECATON DEAR HM: Passing this along… Read More