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Stevenson, Robert Murrell was born on July 3, 1916 in Melrose, New Mexico, United States. Son of Robert Emory and Ada (Ross) Stevenson.
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BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use. All the more fitting is it, then, to have completed this monograph in a part of the Spanish Indies that was stirring every Andalusian's imagination during the days when he was first sending his books across the Atlantic. In every way his was a remarkable personality. He was the first to compose and publish any organ music in Spain. As if the publication of such music in staff-notation were not enough he also published the first Spanish keyboard piece in tablature. He was the first in Spain to print any music in score. He is cited by Pincherle as the first to publish a harp method anywhere. He pioneered with the first treatise specifically designed for female use. He also "enjoys" the distinction of having become in Tapia's Verge! de Musica (1570) the most ruthlessly plagiarized writer in Spanish musical history. If bulk determines preeminence he stands above even Tomas de Santa Maria - who published only one volume, and that containing considerably less text. If range of interests determines rank no one else writing in Spanish during his century even approaches him. Nor does anyone else in Spanish have so many authorities at his fingertips.
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(BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers...)
BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use. All the more fitting is it, then, to have completed this monograph in a part of the Spanish Indies that was stirring every Andalusian's imagination during the days when he was first sending his books across the Atlantic. In every way his was a remarkable personality. He was the first to compose and publish any organ music in Spain. As if the publication of such music in staff-notation were not enough he also published the first Spanish keyboard piece in tablature. He was the first in Spain to print any music in score. He is cited by Pincherle as the first to publish a harp method anywhere. He pioneered with the first treatise specifically designed for female use. He also "enjoys" the distinction of having become in Tapia's Verge! de Musica (1570) the most ruthlessly plagiarized writer in Spanish musical history. If bulk determines preeminence he stands above even Tomas de Santa Maria - who published only one volume, and that containing considerably less text. If range of interests determines rank no one else writing in Spanish during his century even approaches him. Nor does anyone else in Spanish have so many authorities at his fingertips.
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FOR AID in preparing the present resume of Spanish music to 1530 I am indebted to so numerous a company of friends that I must content myself in this preface with no more than a token alphabetical list. In an earlier article - "Music Research in Spanish Libraries," published in Notes of the Music Library Association, sec. ser. X, i (December, 1952, pp. 49-57) - Richard Hill did kindly allow me to itemize my indebtednesses to the Spanish friends whose names make up two-thirds of the following list. The reader who has seen that article already knows how keenly felt are my gracias. Fernando Aguilar Escrich, Norberto Almandoz, H. K. Andrews, Higinio Angles, Jesus Bal y Gay, Robert D. Barton, Gilbert Chase, R. Thurston Dart, Exmos. Sres. Duques de Medinaceli, Charles Warren Fox, Nicold,s Garcia, ulidn Garcia Blanco, Juan Miguel Garcia Perez, Santiaga Gonzdlez Alvarez, Francisco Guerrero, Perreal Herndndez, Ma- cario Santiaga Kastner, Adele Kibre, Edmund King, Luisa de Larramendi, Pedro Longds Bartibds, M arques de Santo Domingo, M arques de Villa-Alcdzar, J uan M ontejano Chico, B. Municio Crist6bal, Ricardo Nuiiez, Clara L. Penney, Carmen Perez-Ddvila, Gustave Reese, Francisco Ribera Recio, Bernard Rose, Samuel Rubio, Adolfo Salazar, Francisco Sdnchez, Graciela Sdnchez Cerro, Manuel Sdnchez Mora, Alfredo Sixto Planas, Denis Stevens, fase Subird, Earl 0. Titus, . B. Trend, ahn Ward, Ruth Watanabe, . A. Westrup, Franktin Zimmerman.
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Stevenson, Robert Murrell was born on July 3, 1916 in Melrose, New Mexico, United States. Son of Robert Emory and Ada (Ross) Stevenson.
Bachelor of Arts Texas, El Paso, 1936. Graduate, Juilliard Graduate School Music, 1938. Master of Music, Yale, 1939.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, 1942. STB cum laude, Harvard University, 1943. BLitt, Oxford University, England.
Master of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary. Doctor of Music honoris causa, Catholic University America, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1992.
Doctor of Letters honoris causa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1993.
Instructor music University Texas, 1941-1943, 46. Faculty Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, 1946-1949. Faculty research lecturer University of California at Los Angeles, 1981, member faculty to professor music, since 1949.
Visiting assistant professor Columbia, 1955-1956. Visiting professor Indiana University, Bloomington, 1959-1960, University Chile, 1965-1966, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1976, University Granada, 1992. Adjunct professor Catholic University American, since 1991.
Consultant United Nations Educational, 1977. Louis Charles Elson lecturer Library. of Congress, Washington, 1969. Inaugural professor musicology National University Mexico, 1996.
Speaker Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Music Workshop, 1998, International Colonial Music Congress, Lima, Peru, 2000. Lecturer Tureck Bach Research Foundation, Oxford University, 2000. Honorary professor Conservatorio Nacional, Peru, 2000, Real Conservatorio Superior, Madrid, 1991-2003.
Honorary lecturer Royal Conservatory, Madrid, 2004. Keynote speaker Morales Colloquium, Oxford University, 2004.
(FOR AID in preparing the present resume of Spanish music ...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers...)
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Member Real Academia de Bellas Artes (honorary), Hispanic Society of America, American Liszt Society (consultant editor), Heterofonia (consultant editor), Brazilian Musicol. Society (honorary), Portuguese Musicol. Society (honorary), Argentinian Musicol.
Society (honorary), Venezuelan Musicol. Society (honorary), American Musicol. Society (honorary), Orden Andrés Bello, Primera Clase, Venezuela, 1992.