deploring this recent concession to laziness; but I am aware that not all readers are sufficiently practised in score reading. Dates of composers and works have been given once only, usually at the first mention of them; but in a few cases I have deemed it wiser to repeat them when making comparison between different periods of different composers. It has not been possible in every case to ascertain the actual date of composition. The French composers usually place this after their names on the title-page of the scores, but where it has not been discoverable, I have quoted the year of publication. It is not expected that in the majority of cases there will be any considerable time-lag between the two. NORMAN DEMUTH. PARIS, Sept. 1950. (The deaths of Charles Koechlin, Arnold Schoenberg, and Jerzy Fitelberg took place when it was too late to amend the text from present to past tenses). -ix- |