Essays About Waldo S. Pratt

Where’s Waldo?

More on Waldo Selden Pratt . . . In The Musical Times, September 1939 (no. 1159, p. 684)— Percy A. Scholes notes his death: WALDO SELDEN PRATT, on July 31 [1939], at the age of eighty-one. He began life as an Egyptologist. From 1880 to 1882 he was Assistant… Read More

“Musicology” Turns 100

by Matthew Werley Waldo Selden Pratt In January 1915, the American seminary professor Waldo S. Pratt (1857–1939) coined the term “musicology” on p. 1 of the inaugural issue of The Musical Quarterly. Musicology had existed conceptually and been practiced… Read More