Catalogue of Correspondence for Armen Carapetyan (1908–92)
This page serves as an appendix to my article "Financial Incentives for Music Scholarship: The Case of Armen Carapetyan and the American Institute of Musicology," which will be published by the Journal of Musicology in fall 2025. I am grateful to Bonnie Blackburn for carefully copyediting this catalogue.
Few figures were as consequential for the study of early music in the twentieth century as the music publisher Armen Carapetyan. In 1944 Carapetyan founded the American Institute of Musicology, an organization that over the past seventy years has published a wealth of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century music for the first time in modern notation. As my article shows, Carapetyan changed the course of musicological research by offering scholars significant monetary incentives to publish editions of repertoire he deemed worthy.
Few figures were as consequential for the study of early music in the twentieth century as the music publisher Armen Carapetyan. In 1944 Carapetyan founded the American Institute of Musicology, an organization that over the past seventy years has published a wealth of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century music for the first time in modern notation. As my article shows, Carapetyan changed the course of musicological research by offering scholars significant monetary incentives to publish editions of repertoire he deemed worthy.
| Date | Address (Country) | Sender | Recipient | Substance of Correspondence | Archival Signature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 1934 | 197 Institution Ave., Newton Centre, Massachusetts (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | W. E. Hocking | [Name spelled Carapetian] Carapetyan asks a question about a paper for his philosophy course. | Harvard University, Houghton Library, William Ernest Hocking Correspondence, MS Am 2375, Carton 5, 980 |
| 8 April 1934 | 197 Institution Ave., Newton Centre, Massachusetts (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | W. E. Hocking | [Name spelled Carapetian] Carapetyan asks a question about a paper for his philosophy course. | Harvard University, Houghton Library, William Ernest Hocking Correspondence, MS Am 2375, Carton 5, 980 |
| 17 October 1940 | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | Harold Spivacke | Armen Carapetyan | Spivacke responds that the Library of Congress does not possess copies of Adrianus Petit Coclico's "Compendium musices" or "Musica reservata." | Library of Congress, Music Division Old Correspondence Collection, Folder Carapetyan, Armen |
| 11 November 1944 | R.D. Maynard, Massachusetts (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | "An Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music is being organized in Cambridge to issue a Quarterly, print music, reproduce important works, record music, etc. Would you assist by allowing to be put down as one of the advisiory editors, or as a member of the advisory board?"; "I am writing you by the encouragement of [Willi] Apel and [Archibald T.] Davison." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 5 February 1945 | R.D., Maynard, Massachusetts (United States) | Otto Kinkeldey | Armen Carapetyan | "There was so little information about the purpose and the form of your journal and about the group who might be interested in it, that I was in doubt as to what to do about it. I asked Dr. [Archibald T.] Davison about it and he has written to me twice." He agrees to join the advisory board. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 1 March 1945 | Maynard R.D., Massachusetts (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | Carapetyan thanks Kinkeldey for joining the Advisory Board. He notes that "the following are on the Advisory Board: [Willi] Apel, [Manfred] Bukofzer, [Archibald T.] Davison, [Alfred] Einstein, [Charles Warren] Fox, [Donald J.] Grout, [Helen] Hewitt, [Paul Henry] Lang, [Gustave] Reese, [Curt] Sachs, [Leo] Schrade and [Oliver] Strunk." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 7 April 1945 | 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | Carapetyan encloses AIM's first prospectus. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 4 May 1945 | 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan is interested in Gombosi's article on fifteenth-century French dance. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 16 June 1945 | 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | "A few days ago I was in New Haven and had a long discussion with [Leo] Schrade who has been very interested in this project. He has set aside his own intentions for a periodical and would like to join forces with me in the editorial work. Discussing this matter with Dr. [Archibald T.] Davison, we both felt that there should be another associate editor representing native forces. We thought [Donald J.] Grout or [Leonard] Ellinwood or some other young American historian would round off the team well." Carapetyan asks for a contribution from Kinkeldey. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 26 July 1945 | Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Otto Kinkeldey | Armen Carapetyan | "I really have nothing new to say and if I wrote an article for your Quarterly, it would be largely a repitition of what I have said in the past. I feel that I would like to give you something more original. If a short and not very original essay would help you, I should be glad to submit something." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 2 August 1945 | Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | "One of the chief aims of the Institute will be the propogation of the history of music in a broader cultural setting and its place in a university education… Dr. [Leo] Schrade in particular feels very eager for your support in a group of essays in the first issue which are avowedly meant to serve a propagandist purpose." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 12 November 1945 | Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | Carapetyan thanks Kinkeldey for article, but asks to substitute "musical scholarship" for "musicology." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 8 June 1946 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan sent a copy of the "Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music." He desires a contribution from Jeppesen. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 24 July 1946 | El Riego, Tehuacán, Puebla (Mexico) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | The Harvard University Printing Office has not provided the desired offprints; Carapetyan is sending along an honorarium of two dollars per printed page. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 28 October 1947 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Ursprung | "I am pleased to communicate again with scholars in Germany… the enclosed prospectus, distributed a year ago, will give an idea of the aims of the Institute… some of the publications of the institute have unfortunately been delayed by the difficult and unpredictable circumstances of postwar Europe... the attention of German scholars is drawn to the linguistic usage of Musica Disciplina which confines itself, usually, to English and French." | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ANA 343 (Otto Ursprung Nachlass), Sch. 1, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 3 November 1947 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Walter Gerstenberg | "The first summer session took place during July and August with very gratifying results, and plans are being made for the session of 1948." "Some of the publications of the Institute have been delayed by the difficult and unpredictable circumstances of post war Europe. However within the very near future the first volume of [Guillaume] Dufay, 'Opera Omnia,' as well as several other items will be distributed." | Private, Private Nachlass Walter Gerstenberg |
| 2 December 1947 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan asks to subscribe to "Acta Musicologica," or exchange it with the "Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music." | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 18 December 1947 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Arnold Schmitz | Armen Carapetyan | "Wie schön und großartig das Musicologische Institut ist, das Ihr Land unter Ihrer Leitung in Rom begründet hat." Schmitz cannot subscribe to the journal because of "die Schwierigkeiten der Valuts"; he offers a possibility of an article in French on the passion by Jacob Obrecht or on Italian Figuralpassionen in the sixteenth century. | Universitätsarchiv Mainz, NL 45 (Nachlass Arnold Schmitz), Box ?, Ordner 1, no. 214a |
| 20 December 1947 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan sends a prospectus for AIM's 1948 Summer Session; he notes that first volume of the Guillaume Du Fay collected-works edition is forthcoming. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 22 December 1947 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Walter Blankenburg | Carapetyan sends a prospectus for AIM's 1948 Summer Session; he notes that first volume of the Guillaume Du Fay collected-works edition is forthcoming. | Universitätsarchiv Augsburg, NL Walter Blankenburg, Folder 161 (Persönliche Korrespondenz) |
| 3 January 1948 | L'Eremo, Capri (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan responds to a request about items from the photographic archives of AIM. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 19 January 1948 | Knud Jeppesen | Armen Carapetyan | Jeppesen wants to exchange "Acta Musicologica" with Carapetyan for the "Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music." | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 22 January 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow is interested in attending the 1948 Summer Session and in presenting on Heinrich Glarean's letters. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 26 January 1948 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan asks Jeppesen to give one or two summer courses at the 1948 Summer Session. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 2 February 1948 | Knud Jeppesen | Armen Carapetyan | Jeppesen declines Carapetyan's offer to teach at the 1948 Summer Session. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 4 February 1948 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan will publish Lowinsky's response to Leo Schrade; there is a planned discourse between Laurence Feininger and Guillaume de Van on transcription. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 7 February 1948 | Otto Ursprung | Armen Carapetyan | "The plan which is developed [in the enclosed prospectus] is very ample; it shows that the Institute has turned to a period of the development of music rich in problems. I wish the enterprise best success." | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ANA 343 (Otto Ursprung Nachlass), Sch. 1, Carapetyan, Armen | |
| 11 February 1948 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan is disappointed that Jeppesen cannot join the Summer Session; he asks about joining for 1949; he also asks if Jeppesen will serve on the advisory board. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 16 February 1948 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Lowinsky can either reply to Leo Schrade, or he can have someone else review the book. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 28 February 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Ralph Kirkpatrick | Armen Carapetyan | "I shall be quite willing to join the Advisory Board of the Institute." | Yale University Music Library, MSS 11 (The Ralph Kirkpatrick Papers), Box 27, Folder 20 |
| 10 March 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5 (Porta S. Pancrazio), Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Egon Wellesz | Carapetyan invites Egon Wellesz to join the European advisory board, where he would join Jacques Handschin, Charles van den Borren, Yvonne Rokseth, and Knud Jeppesen. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, F.13.Wellesz.1755 |
| 13 March 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5 (Porta S. Pancrazio), Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan would be glad to have Müller von Asow at the Summer Session; the topic of Müller von Asow's article seems appropriate for MD. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 13 March 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan sends a prospectus for AIM's 1948 Summer Session. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 13 March 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Ursprung | "It is with much gratification that I find through the Institute a new link with German musicology and musicologists, to whom we wish a restored era of activity, true to the pure ideals of learning… Musicology has suffered its own share of blows and reverses during the past years. And who can tell what we are to expect now?" | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 31 March 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow is not yet sure whether he will be able to attend the Summer Session (he cites specifically the travel from the German border to Rome), but he wants to be there. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 5 April 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Helen Hewitt | Carapetyan asks about the publication of Hewitt's editions of Canti B and C. | University of North Texas, Helen Hewitt Research Collection, 1925–1978, Box 1, Folder 23 |
| 8 April 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | AIM's photographic archives were at Guillaume de Van's being catalogued; Carapetyan asks Gombosi if he would like to join the Advisory Board (the European advisory board includes Jacques Handschin, Yvonne Rokseth, Knud Jeppesen, and Charles van den Borren). | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 16 April 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Egon Wellesz | Carapetyan thanks Wellesz for joining the board and notes that a number of publications will be sent to Wellesz in Oxford. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, F.13.Wellesz.1755 |
| 16 April 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan could offer a grant for tuition, room, and board, but not expenditures for travel; if otherwise impossible, would have to see what could be done; owing to the "international situation and difficulties in transatlantic transportation… very few Americans will attend this year, but we have an interesting international group." | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 16 April 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Walter Gerstenberg | "First of all I wish to say that your offer of publishing [Ludwig] Senfl's works with us has naturally interested me very much. It is clear that the publication of Senfl must be completed as soon as possible. If this is not very readily possible in Germany (as I should not like to be in rivalry with German plans) then surely we should welcome Senfl in our series." | Private, Private Nachlass Walter Gerstenberg |
| 19 April 1948 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan is dissapointed that Jeppesen cannot participate in the 1949 Summer Session (for which the "two invariables" are "de Van and myself." | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 20 April 1948 | Manfred Bukofzer | Armen Carapetyan | Bukofzer thanks Carapetyan for his prospectus for the Summer Session and provides a list of microfilms for a possible exchange. | University of California, Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, Archives Bukofzer 1, Box 1, Folder Microfilms (no. 35) | |
| 3 May 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow needs help with travel from German border to Rome; he desires an official invitation; he notes that there is a fragment in a Leipzig private collection that he could share. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 4 May 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan sends a letter of invitation for Müller von Asow. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 4 May 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan confirms Müller von Asow's participation and notes that Müller von Asow is expected a day or two before the session. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 15 May 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan needs to have confirmation from Müller von Asow regarding attendance. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 18 May 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Helen Hewitt | Armen Carapetyan | The edition of Canti B is ready; that of Canti C is still "in progress." "I fail to see how anyone could be otherwise than happy in a city having the beauty and musicological resources of Paris." | University of North Texas, Helen Hewitt Research Collection, 1925–1978, Box 1, Folder 23 |
| 24 May 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Arnold Schmitz | Armen Carapetyan | Schmitz writes on behalf of Fritz Feldmann, who wants to take part in the summer courses in Rome. Although he was a party member, Feldmann saved the pianist Bronislaw Ritter von Pozniak from the Gestapo. He asks Carapetyan for patience with his MD submission. | Universität Mainz, NL 45 (Nachlass Arnold Schmitz), Box ?, Ordner 1, no. 217a |
| 26 May 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow is sending the films by airmail. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 28 May 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow confirms that he will attend the session. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 4 June 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | The Summer Session courses will start 5 July; members should arrive on 3 or 4 July; Müller von Asow wants to exchange some films for a care package. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 8 June 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow notes that he will be staying with Hans Halm in Munich; there are difficulties crossing borders, but anticipates participating in the Summer Session. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 14 June 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow notes that he will be staying with Hans Halm in Munich; he anticipates participating in the Summer Session. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 14 June 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Helen Hewitt | Carapetyan confirms receipt of Hewitt's letter. "I too fail to see how you could be otherwise than happy in gay and musicological resplendent Paris." | University of North Texas, Helen Hewitt Research Collection, 1925–1978, Box 1, Folder 23 |
| 17 June 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Carapetyan relays the information that there is a second-class ticket awaiting Müller von Asow in Munich (for a flight from Munich to Florence). | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 23 July 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow explains why he was unable to travel to Florence. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 24 July 1948 | Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | The Summer session is now almost half over; Carapetyan regrets that Müller von Asow is not present. He asks von Asow to have Dr. Hans Halm return the ticket to Carapetyan. The prints sent by Müller von Asow not useful. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 1 September 1948 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Erich H. Mueller von Asow | Armen Carapetyan | Müller von Asow notes that Dr. Mosley should have explained why he was unable to come from Munich to Florence; he thanks Carapetyan for the invitation. | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Internationales Musiker-Brief-Archiv (IMBA), F50.IMBA.447 MUS MAG |
| 14 September 1948 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Percy A. Scholes | Carapetyan provides date of birth (11 October 1908), a list of where he was educated, his musical background, and offers a clarification about the foundation of the two institutes. He also provided a postcard regarding the Guillaume Du Fay collected-works edition led by Guillaume de Van. | Libraries and Archives Canada, Percy A. Scholes fonds (R11530-0-1-E), Box 24, Folder Carapetyan, Armen |
| 31 January 1949 | Paul Henry Lang | Otto Gombosi | "C[arapetyan] himself is OK but completely under the thumb of [Guillaume] de Van, and the latter gent is making himself thoroughly disliked everywhere. Even as gentle a man as [Otto] Kinkeldey is sore about the Institute in Rome that gives the impression of an official American body, and as to de Van, he is persona non grata in several lands." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 1 March 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | [Dictated by Carapetyan] Carapetyan wrote to Paul Müller, editor of the Alexander Agricola edition; he will write as soon as Müller responds. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 2, Folder 18 (Maldeghem and His Buried Treasure) |
| 11 April 1949 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan asks Jeppesen to teach at the 1950 Summer Session. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 10 May 1949 | Via San Felice a Ema8 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Louise Dyer | Carapetyan negotiates whether Handschin would review for "Acta Musicologica" or MD; he complements Dyer's work "and I wish it further success - with less [Guillaume] de Vanish episodes!" | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 |
| 16 May 1949 | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | "You have, I think, every reason to take great satisfaction in [Musica Disciplina], as also in the first volumes of the new edition of the [Guillaume] Dufay works. I have, however, come to the conclusion that I must ask you to allow me to resign from the Advisory Board of the Institute. Since the transfer of the Institute to Rome, its relation to musical research in this country, always somewhat tenuous, has become still more so. And it would seem to me that the time has come for the Institute to represent itself as what it really is--an independent group of scholars--and to drop even the nominal connection with this country. Aside from this, I think I may say frankly that the manner in which the Dufay edition was launched, without apparent consideration for the years of works that Professor [Heinrich] Besseler in Heidelberg has devoted to a similar project, has been a source of keen embarrassment to me, as I am sure it has been also to many others." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 49, Folder 13 | |
| 16 May 1949 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan understands that Jeppesen cannot commit to the 1950 Summer Session. He sent a copy of MD to replace a lost volume. At present he is in Florence at San Felice A Ema 8 (Villetta La Verenella); he hopes to see Jeppesen in Basel at the 1949 IMS meeting. | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 21 May 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Louise Dyer | Carapetyan asks for permission for his brother Caro to perform the Magnificat by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. "As I had feared, [Guillaume] de Van did not show up on the 15th. I fear that his is a hopeless case, and that at any rate he is in bad hands, being undermined morally and materially. Alas... I may have to shift the edition of [Guillaume] Dufay to other hands – a thing I am very loathe to do." | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 |
| 31 May 1949 | 515 San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "[Guillaume] De Van is in a serious predicament and for the moment it seems impossible to deal directly with him." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 18 July 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Heinrich Besseler | Carapetyan just returned from Guillaume de Van's funeral in Amalfi; he had a conversation at Jacques Handschin's during the 1949 IMS with regard to de Van's health and life; he asks Besseler to take over the Guillaume Du Fay edition. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 |
| 19 July 1949 | Richard S. Hill | Armen Carapetyan | Hill heard from Paul Henry Lang the news about Guillaume de Van. He asks whether he left materials behind for the Guillaume Machaut and Guillaume Du Fay editions. He asks about cause of death and exact date. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen | |
| 22 July 1949 | 515 San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Heinrich Besseler | Armen Carapetyan | Besseler was shook by the death of Guillaume de Van. He is ready to assume editorship of the Guillaume Du Fay edition and asks for an upfront honorarium to work on the edition for six months (October 1949 to March 1950) while living in Heidelberg so that he does not have to teach at the University of Jena and travel back and forth. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 |
| 6 August 1949 | Paul Henry Lang | Otto Gombosi | "[Guillaume] De Van is dead all right and Carapetyan is out on a limb because his whole enterprise was run by feu M de Van, or rather le Baron de Van d'Alabama. Carapetyan is OK but he needs a reorientation course. I think that our conversation with him will have a salutary effect and I so reported to JAMS." "Manfred [Bukofzer] came home via England and had some hot conversations with the musical gentry there. He did not pull his punches. I am glad that he followed me so soon in my footsteps because the Beefeaters will realize now that we mean business." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 12 August 1949 | Louise Dyer | Armen Carapetyan | "Can you tell me where to apply to the executors of Mr. [Guillaume] de Van's estate? I loaned to Mr. de Van a very valuable camera which I gave him the money to buy for me in Switzerland and which he was using to photograph MS for the 14th century publication, he was doing for me. By the way Mr. [Jacques] Handschin knows all about this... I want this camera back." | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 | |
| 16 August 1949 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "You know that I had not before then met either [Paul Henry] Lang or [Manfred] Bukofzer. Yet I felt a certain background to our first meeting of tension and perhaps even far more than tension"… "You may have meant the [Guillaume] de Van episode. That, to be sure, was an episode. As to Lang, it was evident that he felt there was something very serious to attack", "Bukofzer in a later discussion expressed himself much in favor of cultivating [Albert] Smijers and at all events not offending him. Now, I have had quite cordial correspondence with S. and no problem"... "however, just recently – at the Congress – I heard that S. is at odds with a whole row of Dutch musicologists, including [Joseph] Smits [van Waesberghe]. And I believe Buk. knew that I had dealings with Smits." Carapetyan does not know what the issues are in Holland, "I can honestly say that I knew nothing about [Hans Joachim] Moser's political past until what I head from Lang. But at this point – and we are in the year of grace, 1949 – it makes no difference to me whether Moser was or was not a Nazi", "And may I point out that I myself belong to a minority that has not been without f[r]ightful persecutions, also at the instigation of the Germans themselves (during the 1st world-war)", "Pray tell me, what is so spotless about [Heinrich] Besseler's political past? Yet did not Lang and Bukofzer both plead his case? Did I not hear in America some serious charges, suspicions of various degrees and doubts about so many others, as [Jacques] Handschin, [Knud] Jeppesen and so many others?", the title of "American" had the blessing of the Cultural Attache at the US Embassy in Rome, it was meant to be organizational, diplomatic, and practical, not "as representing a national culture." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 23 August 1949 | Otto Gombosi | Armen Carapetyan | Manfred Bukofzer and Paul Henry Lang are both critical of AIM for reasons that are as much fiction as truth. "I completely share your views in the affair [Albert] Smijers and consider Bukofzer's fatherly attitude a little out of place." Hans Joachim Moser's behavior was "more foolish than diabolical," and Gombosi has always had a good relationship with him. He proposes a screening committee to help Carapetyan. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1947 to 1949 | |
| 15 September 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Louise Dyer | "[Guillaume] De Van's affairs are left in the greatest imaginable disorder and indecency. Of course there is no will. At present there is only a temporary provision by the Amalfi authorities in protection of the child and the numerous creditors. They have appointed the Duchess of Bagnoli as tutore. But actually nothing can be done until the American courts appoint a guardian and an administrator. We have urged the court to act speedily, and have asked for a quick appointment... The camera is with a creditor as security for one of the countless debts." | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 |
| 15 September 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan is not receiving "Notes." | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 17 October 1949 | Richard S. Hill | Armen Carapetyan | Hill notes that there have been issues with getting the "Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music" in the Copyright Office; he offers details on Carapetyan not receiving "Notes." | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen | |
| 19 November 1949 | Via Angelo Massina 5, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "[Adrian] Willaert I should be out by the end of the year, also [Claude] Le Jeune 1... Work will start on [Nicolas] Gombert first of the year", "[Karel Philippus] B[ernet] Kempers was here and discussed with me Cl[emens] non Papa. It is settled and 1950 will see at least 1 volume of it out.", "For the rest it is only a matter of accepting [Heinrich] Besseler's protracting and procrastinating methods. [Friedrich] Blume and [Hans] Albrecht were here. They openly told me that Besseler is a hopeless "putter-offer", and in fact warned me to be firm with him. By the way, Albrecht took it upon himself to write once more to [Paul] Müller about [Alexander] Agricola when I myself had written that for me the only thing was a closed chapter so far as concerned Müller. (Today I received from Albrecht the copy of the letter in which he makes a valiant attempt to stir Müller to action)." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1947 to 1949 |
| 10 December 1949 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "With [Adrian] Willaert, [Nicolas] Gombert and Cl[emens] Non Papa, we are filling a large and important gap in the 16th century. I like very much to do some substantial filling in at the second half of the 15th century and at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries," "As to [Dragan] Plamenac and [Loyset] Compère, I only hope that Plamenac does not intend to practice again the transcriptional method of his [Johannes] Ockeghem edition", "[Heinrich] Besseler is in. He will carry on the [Guillaume] Dufay edition. Let us see now how many of those vociferous gentlemen will find occasion for the exercise of their howling vocal chords." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1947 to 1949 |
| December 1949 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | Carapetyan sends Jeppesen Christmas and New Year greetings. | The Royal Danish Library, Inaccessible 1974/105-1 | |
| 1949 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | [Dictated by Carapetyan] Carapetyan thanks Reese for his response to the circular letter sent to members of the Advisory board. The third summer session is postponed to 1950. With respect to Reese's inquiry about Alexander Agricola, "I promptly wrote to the editor [Paul Müller], but the habits in correspondence of this gentleman are rather strange – so also according to the experience of others." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 2, Folder 18 (Maldeghem and His Buried Treasure) |
| 16 January 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | Carapetyan asks if Besseler would like to join her husband when he visits Florence. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 30 January 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "Let me only say that from both sides of the Atlantic there have been expressions of indignation. A reply by me has to appear – unfortunately, since our collaborators must be protected, otherwise I should like to ignore the thing. And in this reply [Paul Henry] Lang has the advantage of various doubts, although I am not saying that my reply will be a happy reading for Lang. At all events, that was not the best way to substantiate the last words at parting: 'Remember, we want to help you!' I have had no other word from Lang since Basel. Mmma! as they are wont to say here." "Last month a young man, [Theodore] Karp, student of [Gustave] Reese and [Curt] Sachs, came to see me and to ask whether I had someone for [Loyset] Compère, otherwise he would like to take him for his dissertation and for transcription of the collected works with a view to publication. Since you said it was Reese who mentioned [Dragan] Plamenac – Compère, and since it was Reese who advised Karp to find out from me about Compère, the thing is a little puzzling. At all events one could not accept for publication in a serious series anything from a doctoral candidate without first seeing the work. And anyhow there another man, a competent musicologist, who has since long talked to me about Compère." "[Heinrich] Besseler will be here in a month or so and we shall discuss the rules of transcription." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated |
| 3 February 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | Carapetyan disappointed that Hildegard Besseler cannot join her husband (it appears owing to passport issues in the GDR); she asks if Besseler can send her clothing measurements; Armen [Carapetyan's] health is very bad. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 16 February 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Paul Henry Lang | "It was only late in January that I read your amazing paragraph about me and the Institute, and I was at once reminded of your very last words to me at Basel when I was rushing off: 'Remember, we want to help you!' I also thought of your tactics in the case of [Jacques] Handschin. You nominated him for the presidency, you said with satisfaction, as 'the best way of getting rid of him.'" | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated | |
| 25 February 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | There has been a delay in Besseler's return to Heidelberg (from Jena). | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 25 February 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | Besseler travels back and forth between Heidelberg and Jena. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 25 February 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "Whenever a quintessence of mildness and amiability like [Charles] van der Borren remains shocked and indignant, you can take it as a sure sign of things… I must confess that [Paul Henry] Lang's behaviour reminds one more of an S.S. trooper than anything else I have seen out of professional circles", "Willaert I goes to press in a week. Clemens [non Papa]'s Mass, 'Misericorde' is at the engravers. I suppose (I hope) [Guillaume] Dufay IV will be sent to you by [Richard] Hill for review." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated |
| 6 March 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Otto Gombosi | Armen Carapetyan | "By the way, will you kindly forward a hint to [Hermann] Zenck: [Edward] Lowinsky found a motet manuscript in the Vallicelliana – it was among the prints and can be found by the printed catalogue, circa 1530, coming from the Baptistery of Florence and containing among many interesting items three unica of [Adrian] Willaert. Lowinsky read a paper about this manuscript at New York convention last Christmas." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated |
| 15 March 1950 | Cornelis W. H. Lindenburg | Armen Carapetyan | Carapetyan will appear on a list of members in the next "Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis" volume. | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 325 | |
| 16 March 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Louise Dyer | Carapetyan asks about the state of Guillaume de Van's collected-works edition for Jacopo da Bologna. | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 |
| 21 March 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "Yesterday I received a letter from [Paul Henry] Lang in reply to mine (of which a copy to you last time). It is no good. The man has no intellectual honesty. But he is singularly lacking in astuteness, with all his shrewdness and predilection for politics", "[Paul] Müller's behavior has been most puzzling. [Hans] Albrecht made a last valiant effort, on his own initiative, but the man is unfathomable. He was even told by Albrecht he would have no assistance in Germany for its publication. We will be fully justified in bringing out our own edition." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated |
| 30 March 1950 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Curt Sachs | "If the manner and the substance of Mr. [Paul Henry] Lang's self-styled reporting is the expression of the Board of the American Musicological Society and even of the Society itself, as is claimed by Mr. Lang, I find that it is only honorable that I request you to have my name withdrawn from the Society, of which I had the honor to become a member only some months ago." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 5, Folder 100 (Lang, Paul Henry) |
| 31 March 1950 | Otto Gombosi | Armen Carapetyan | "[Donald J. Grout] assured me that if he would have had any inkling of the effect of [Paul Henry] Lang's report, he would have blue-penciled it." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated | |
| 31 March 1950 | Paul Henry Lang | Otto Gombosi | "I trust that by now you have seen Brother Carapetyan's slightly hysterical 'Editorial.' I am preparing an answer in which I do not intend to take issue with him on all the silly things he says, but I do wish to comment on two things. 1/ his anonymous excerpts from letters à la Senator McCarthy, and his obvious attempt to play out you and [Manfred] Bukofzer against me. I have already several unsolicited letters, among them one from [Oliver] Strunk who indignantly denies that he was the individual mentioned in footnote 7; he did resign. Needless to say Manfred did not mince words as far as he is concerned. Among others [Leo] Schrade and [Heinrich] Besseler too have something pertinent to say. -- 2/ C[arapetyan] is making an obvious attempt to play you and Manfred against me. Now the meeting certainly did not take place at your suggestion because planned that in advance", "I have seen photostatic copies of the [Guillaume] de Van correspondence with Besseler and [Yvonne] Rockseth [sic.] and I can assure you that it is simply incredible." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated | |
| 1 April 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | "P.S. I wonder if Dr. [Alfred] Einstein knew that you took him into confidence together with Prof. [Heinrich] Besseler. Here you surely shut in the same room a Brahmin (from Einstein's standpoint) with an untouchable. I heard some violent words (to say the least) from Einstein regarding Besseler. And I cannot help thinking of Prof. [Leo] Schrade's triumphant announcement to me of his demarches in Washington against Besseler's reinstatement at Heidelberg (in which he apparently succeeded). I need not discuss the [Paul Henry] Lang-Schrade affair, the Schrade-Lowinsky conflict (which netted me [Edward] Lowinsky's uninteresting animosity), the warning of Einstein to me against Schrade, etc., etc. Professional strife will indeed bring about diverting ironies, and will strangely flock together birds of differing feathers." "P.S.2 Prof. Besseler, by the way, left here yesterday, after a visit of a week at my house." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 2, Folder 80 | |
| 10 April 1950 | Otto Gombosi | Paul Henry Lang | The Basel meeting between Lang and Carapetyan was organized by Gombosi. "Your report in JAMS rather brusquely shut this door." "As to the others, e.g., [Hans Joachim] Moser, I just can't see how one can possibly object to his publishing an article in Musica Disciplina and, at the same time, advocate Besseler's taking over the Dufay edition. Where do you draw the line?" Lang's behavior is "shenanigans." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 12 April 1950 | Louise Dyer | Armen Carapetyan | "[Guillaume] de Van had completed 15 fascicules [for the Jacopo da Bologna edition], engraved and in second proof." | University of Melbourne, Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Box 2016.0034 Unit 1 | |
| 29 April 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Knud Jeppesen | "You will have read the Editorial in the last issue of Musica Disciplina, and specifically, the statement about the Advisory Board to the effect that in view of the course of things and events in connection with the American Institute of Musicology, the list of names constituting the Advisory Board will no longer stand... I want to tell you personally that your moral support has been valuable and that it has been quite appreciated." | The Royal Danish Library, Knud Jeppesen Papers (Utilg. 635) | |
| 29 April 1950 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | "You will have read the Editorial in the last issue of Musica Disciplina, and specifically, the statement about the Advisory Board to the effect that in view of the course of things and events in connection with the American Institute of Musicology, the list of names constituting the Advisory Board will no longer stand... I want to tell you personally that your moral support has been valuable and that it has been quite appreciated." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 2 May 1950 | Paul Henry Lang | Otto Gombosi | "I hate to disappoint you but our friend in Rome is 'as crooked as a firehose', an epithet that comes straight from the Library of Congress [identified as Richard Hill]." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated | |
| 4 May 1950 | Otto Gombosi | Paul Henry Lang | "I am still not at ease with this whole C[arapetyan] affair. The epithet I quoted in my previous letter also comes straight from the Library of Congress [identified as Richard Hill]. This may show you that people talk differently to you than behind your back. I know you are a crusader, but even the holy sepulchers doesn't warrant the time and energy you could spend on much more lasting values." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 12, Correspondence 1950 and undated | |
| 3 June 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Heinrich Besseler agrees with Carapetyan that Agricola should be published before Brumel. "So far as concerns [Paul] Müller, there is absolutely nothing to restrict us from that side. I told you that [Hans] Albrecht once more wrote him, after his visit here last October, in the form almost of an ultimatum. No reply! Besseler thinks that he does not have the thing ready. [Joseph] Schmidt-Görg told me the other day that although a nice chap, Müller is hopelessly lethargic." "Besseler is again here (with his wife). He attended the Congress at Rome and now will stay a week or so before returning." "The Congress was a masterpiece of disorganization and disorder, which seems just right for Italy!" | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 5 June 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Stanley Pargellis | "In the event of publishing the Capirola [Lutebook] I shall do everything to make it an outstanding work. But I cannot guarantee perfection, since the Italians, alas, are not to be entirely trusted for consistency and high morals." He proposes 15% possible variation on price. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 7 July 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | Hildegard Besseler was ill on the return journey. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 11 July 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan asks Gombosi again about editing the Alexander Agricola collected-works edition (apparently Gombosi did not answer directly); he agrees to publish Hayne van Ghizeghem before Agricola. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 14 July 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Stanley Pargellis | Armen Carapetyan | The Newberry Library agrees to the publication of the Capirola Lutebook edition. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 29 July 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "I am inserting [Hayne van] Ghizeghem in a list included in an announcement of the [Adrian] Willaert first two volumes"; Dragan Plamenac has not responded to Carapetyan about the Loyset Compere edition, "I am making plans to send the family away in September or October at the latest. What will happen to the Institute in the event of war, heaven only knows. If we save all of our material, we may yet go on limpingly, especially if before such a moment I were able to get further photographs (I am getting something in almost every day. My present plan is to send the family to Mexico and, if I were to get away eventually, I should also go there and from thence, if necessary to the Southwest United States, where I should hope to be able to settle. These are terrifying, distressing, and certainly thoroughly upsetting days." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 18 September 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Gombosi has still not answered Carapetyan's inquiry about the Alexander Agricola collected-works edition; Carapetyan asks about Gombosi serving as one of the four sponsors required for his Fulbright grant application. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 29 September 1950 | Paul Henry Lang | Otto Gombosi | "I think the oldest item on the agenda is Brother Carapetyan. I do not hold it against you for a moment to have sided with him; that's your own business and has nothing to do with ou[r] friendship. He double crossed you as he did ev[e]rybody else and you will be the only loser"... "I am in possession of a letter addressed to [Alfred] Einstein and dated at the time of his notorious editorial in which he apologies for his previous attitude... the letter to Einstein states exactly the opposite and tearfully concedes that E[instein] was right indeed, etc. [Curt] Sachs can do a little testifying too -- as can some of those who were mistakenly addressed as being in the "other" camp." Lang notes "Mme Carapetyan's escapade", "What I wonder about is how long the two spinsters will continue to shell out money", "I have received a wild, incoherent, and deeply insulting letter from [Jacques] Handschin who said that he knows now why he was not elected president of IMG: 'Carapetyan told me that it was you who persuaded the others to reject me.' If Handschin would only know that he wasn't considered for the presidency he would not have believed this utter canard, but I will tell him frankly that every Swiss member present showed such contempt and hostility towards him that no one would have thought of nominating him. I had absolutely nothing to do with the whole mess." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 2 October 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Otto Gombosi | Armen Carapetyan | Gombosi has received the Hayne van Ghizeghem contract; [Wilibald] Gurlitt had written Gombosi positively about his Guillaume Machaut edition (Gombosi greatly appreciated the endorsement). | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 5 October 1950 | Via San Leonardo 70, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan send the AIM Contract now signed and countersigned. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 17 October 1950 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Richard S. Hill | Armen Carapetyan | It is unusual that Gustave Reese would review the Adrian Willaert collected-works edition (normally he would not, even for attractive publications). A rumor is circulating that Carapetyan is moving to South America. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 22 November 1950 | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan has left Florence for Spain for the winter. There is an issue with the Capirola Lutebook coming to Italy for production process and then returning to Newberry (he is working with the Italian authorities to clear this up). | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 | |
| 24 November 1950 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan has been submitting his publications to the United States copyright office, but apparently some issues are arising; he is considering how to safeguard the work he is doing in Europe. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 1 December 1950 | (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Hildegard Besseler | Carapetyan could not come to Heidelberg to visit and is now living in Spain for the winter (Carapetyan mentions his "rather battered treasury," the Italian prices, and the temperature warmth of Spain). | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 11 |
| 18 January 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | AIM has a Florentine office that is running well at Via Maggio 1 (V. Bigliocca); Carapetyan will return to Florence in the next couple of weeks. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 1 February 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Stanley Pargellis | Carapetyan cannot accept the contract from Pargellis, as it "puts a negative end to prolonged negotiations." This would close the American market to AIM – that they could sell 250 copies in Europe was pointless because Carapetyan cannot plan on selling more than fifteen of such an edition in Europe. Carapetyan proposes helping the library produce and publicize the edition, but the library will pay nearly all the bills themselves. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 3 March 1951 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Something from "three years ago" was never received. "What you say about the Treviso copy of Mus[ica] Nova is v[ery] interesting. I have for a longish time been out of that environment, having been rather taken up by work on an earlier period. But the 'Pecorina' problem has various interesting implications other than nomenclature or bibliography... By the way I wonder whether [Hermann] Zenck did not know of that copy of Mus. Nova. He had been in close touch with Treviso. (The [Adrian] Willaert edn., the 3rd vol. of which is just out, will go on under [Walter] Gerstenberg's care - an intimate friend of Zenck's.)" | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 10 March 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Harriette Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | "It has been a wonderful experience — new, fresh and quite different – to be in Spain. At the moment it is almost pioneering, for Armen [Carapetyan] has gone to Madrid on the beginning of a very very long institute journey. He shan't return for another month." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 31 March 1951 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "I did not go at all into the problems connected with 'Pecorina' except for reporting about the Treviso copy of the Musica Nova with the handwritten remark of 'Pecorina…' I added in a footnote that this seemed to me to confirm your hypothesis as to an early Pecorina print which was the predecessor of the Musica nova." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 13 May 1951 | on TWA flight to Boston | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan will stay in the United States for a month. "I have I think told you that [Walter] Gerstenberg will carry on with Willaert - in good and speedy order." | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 30 May 1951 | Cambridge (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Carapetyan discusses the Capirola Lutebook edition. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 1 June 1951 | 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (United States) | Otto Gombosi | Armen Carapetyan | Gombosi speaks highly of Gustave Reese. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 6 July 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | Carapetyan visited with Gustave Reese recently; he is ready now to resume his membership in the AMS; he would like to attend the AMS congress in December, but not sure if he can attend. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192–194 |
| 6 July 1951 | Arroyo de la Miel, Málaga (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Gombosi | Gustave Reese suggests that he resume his membership in the AMS. | Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Otto Gombosi Papers, Ms. Coll. 136, Box 10 |
| 16 July 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | No formal reinstatement for the AMS neccessary; Reese suggests that Carapetyan get in contact with Charles Warren Fox about presenting a paper. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192–194 |
| 3 August 1951 | Armen Carapetyan | Joseph Schmidt-Görg | "It would be very helpful if you gave me, as soon as you can, an approximate estimate of the number of pages that [Nicolas] Gombert's Opera Omnia would comprise. I want this information for the calculation of the price of the entire edition." | Private, Private Nachlass Joseph Schmidt-Görg, Folder 578 | |
| 13 August 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Heinrich Besseler | Armen Carapetyan | "Beim Betrachten der 3. Bände [Adrian] Willaert bin ich begeistert von dem wirklich hervorragenden Eindruck dieser Publikation: man darf Ihnen herzlich gratulieren, daß das Unternehmen nun gesichert ist und in so hervorragender Form weiter läuft!" | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 |
| 19 August 1951 | Armen Carapetyan | Joseph Schmidt-Görg | Carapetyan discusses the first and second proofs of Nicolas Gombert's masses: "I have worked arduously on your introduction. The translation is impossible. Not only its English is entirely defective, but in many passages the meaning is hopelessly obscure, and in a number of instances your meaning has been entirely distorted. In some cases, your own original is ambiguous." Carapetyan aims to publish the volume in September; he floats the idea of publishing a free edition (a couple of masses, fifteen to twenty motets, half a dozen chansons). | Private, Private Nachlass Joseph Schmidt-Görg, Folder 578 | |
| 20 September 1951 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan acknowledges receipt of Lowinsky's letter. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 14 October 1951 | Hacienda de Santa Ana, Arroya de la Miel, Malaga (Spain) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese inquires about a possible recent article on Adrian Willaert's "Liber quinque missarum" (Venice: Francesco Marcolini da Forli, 1536) and asks for a citation. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 3, Folder 100 (Music in the Renaissance, chapter 7) |
| 19 October 1951 | Joseph Smits van Waesberghe | Corpus Scriptorum de Musica editors | "After the brief period of two years it appears that several prospective contributors to [Corpus Scriptorum de Musica] are well behind schedule time." Smits van Waesberghe asks the editors to recall Article VIII of the contract: if insufficient progress is made, AIM can reassign the edition, and the author is liable to repay the advance payment and all materials given to him; contracts are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | Private, Private Nachlass Joseph Schmidt-Görg, Folder 578 | |
| 28 October 1951 | Sitges (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | Carapetyan asks Walter Gerstenberg about the article on Adrian Willaert's masses. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192 |
| 28 October 1951 | (Spain) | Harriette Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "We were at the last pot, pan and pin of packing when your letter came asking about the [Adrian] Willaert article. My husband dictated letters both to you and Dr. [Walter] Gerstenberg. Fortunately I did send off the letter to Dr. Gerstenberg, but, alas, the enclosed note has waited all of a week to be typed – I simply couldn't manage everything efficiently in the rush of our departure. At any event, I hope that you will soon have a word from Dr. Gerstenberg." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192 |
| 29 December 1951 | Armen Carapetyan | John Ward | Carapetyan has for two months been detained in Spain due to an expired international car license; he expects to be off to Italy any day. | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder C | |
| 15 January 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Richard S. Hill | Armen Carapetyan | Hill is getting reviewers for CMM volumes for "Notes" (Gustave Reese for Adrian Willaert; Edward Lowinsky for Antoine Brumel and Clemens non Papa). Carapetyan had cancelled his subscription to "Notes" at some point. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 28 March 1952 | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | Since the end of September, Carapeytan has been on his way to Italy; he was detained owing to a missing international document for the car. He is searching for a villa and may decide on a villa of the Pandolfini, in order to set up the workshop for printing. Carapetyan's collected-works edition for Antoine Brumel has "aroused the storm in some quarters that was to be expected, and the very gratifying letters that were not expected." "As regards [James C.] Thomson, he had offered me the edition and I had asked for some further information," but Carapetyan has not heard since a bit of communication some months ago. Carapetyan would like to discuss MD with Reese. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192–194 | |
| 8 April 1952 | Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "I was detained in that God-forsaken country, Spain, about five months for the great offense of an expired document of my car." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 8 April 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan is baffled that his Cambridge office cancelled his "Notes" subscription. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 9 May 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese has considerable interest in Catherine Brooks leading the collected-works edition for Antoine Busnoys; he is still finishing up Music in the Renaissance. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192–194 |
| 20 June 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Otto Kinkeldey | Carapetyan thanks Kinkeldey for his praise with respect to the Antoine Brumel mass; he notes that he hears from his brother about Kinkeldey, with whom Carapetyan's brother has been glad to be in contact. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Otto Kinkeldey Papers, 1902-1966, Box 2, Folder 5 |
| 5 July 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Frank C. Campbell | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky still has not received the Antoine Brumel and Clemens non Papa volumes. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 3 September 1952 | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan was at the 1952 IMS conference in Utrecht; he regrets not having the opportunity to spend more time together. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen | |
| 12 September 1952 | Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | AIM has sent copies of Antoine Brumel and Clemens non Papa to Lowinsky, pleased that he will review, "even Brumel, whose transcription will of course disturb some." "[Heinrich] Besseler, as you may by now know, is definitely settled in Jena (a great pity). He has been well and of course very busy. Materially he has been far better off. But he was not able to come to Utrecht for the [IMS] Congress, and that was depressing, and for me inconvenient, since I had many things to discuss with him." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 17 October 1952 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "About [Heinrich] Besseler I feel exactly as you do. I am under no illusions whatever about the course of developments in the Eastern zone. I fear he will have to pay a heavy price, as time goes on, for the economic advantages offered him." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 17 November 1952 | Villa Pandolfini, Antella (Firenze) (Italy) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | B. Kahmann's second article in MD omits sixteen pieces by Antoine Févin; Music in the Renaissance is at last in galley proof. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192–194 |
| 21 May 1953 | La Chaumière, Vence, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | André Jurres | Armen Carapetyan | The new Jacob Obrecht edition by Albert Smijers is not ready; Carapetyan has not paid dues in 1951, 1952, or 1953. | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 337 |
| 5 March 1954 | Harriette Carapetyan | Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis | Carapetyan directs the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis to send catalogues to Carapetyan's Tucson address (Box 853, Tucson, Arizona). | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 338 | |
| 24 March 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "As you see I am back amidst the cacti. But my family remain in Europe. I returned here to dispose of the house I built last year, as it seemed impossible yet to pull out of Europe and carry on with the Institute satisfactorily. We are weary of our vagrant life and I am still trying to work out a solution. I hope to be able to come to decision within the year", "I cannot without indelicacy speak to [Richard] Hill, who wrote me about the question some time ago, of a present to another." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192 |
| 31 March 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese would like vols. 2 and 3 of the Adrian Willaert edition. The printing for Music in the Renaissance has been completed and is just waiting for binding. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 10 June 1954 | Otto Kinkeldey | John Ward | "[Jacques Handschin] also said he had been frightened by a rumor that Carapetyan was going bankrupt, which disquieted [sic.] him greatly. But he seems to feel now that the bankruptcy will not come to pass." | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder K | |
| 5 July 1954 | P.O. Box 853, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | André Jurres | Armen Carapetyan | Jurres has not received the membership fee for the current year. If he does not receive them by 1 October, he will have Carapetyan's membership card presented as a form of payment. | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 340 |
| 15 August 1954 | Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "I have been hounded by at least two German musicologists about [Jean] Mouton. I have held everything in suspense about Mouton. My last letters to [Andrew] Minor and to [Josephine] Shine on the subject went without a reply from either of them. This was three years ago and I wrote them from Spain. There is just the chance that the letters did not reach them, for we found out that mail in Spain was more or less a gamble, especially in the province of Malaga. Anyhow, I am not necessarily eager to start work on Mouton." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 192 |
| 16 September 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Now having vols. 2 and 3 of the Adrian Willaert edition, Reese intends to write a review for "Notes"; Josephine Shine and Andrew Minor would certainly have responded, so the mail in Spain must have gone astray. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 22 October 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | R.J.A. Lagas | "I have repeatedly inquired through our office in Amsterdam about the Society's organ, issues of which are distributed to members, and which seems the only benefit of membership by a non-Dutch. Yet for years I have received not a single issue! This raises the question of precisely which side is in default! Last spring I instructed our Amsterdam office to pay my membership fee, but not before finding out why I did not receive the aforesaid publication. Until now I have had no report of a reply from you. Instead I receive a notice through a bank!" | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 338 |
| 30 October 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | R.J.A. Lagas | Armen Carapetyan | As secretary of the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Lagas notes that during some of these years, the "Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis" did not appear; Collecting membership fees through a bank is normal in the Netherlands. | The Hague City Archives, Nederlands Muziek Instituut, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Archives, Folder 339 |
| 27 November 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan suggests that they exchange space in their publications for advertisement; this had been done in the past. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 28 December 1954 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | John Ward | Carapetyan asks Ward if he wants to publish a volume of Spanish music about which Ward had told Carapetyan at the 1952 IMS conference in Utrecht. | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder C |
| 27 January 1955 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | There is less interest from Hill on exchanging space, but Hill offered a rate card. | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 11 February 1955 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard S. Hill | Carapetyan would need for MD's subscription to be three times as large in order to be a "business proposition" (i.e., profitable). | University of Maryland, Special Collections, Music Library Association Archives, Record Group 6, Notes, Box 2-MLA, Carapetyan, Armen |
| 16 February 1955 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | In a (lost) letter from 4 February 1955, Carapetyan asked Reese if he would serve as American Editor of MD, but given all his obligations, Reese asks for more time to think about it. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 26 March 1955 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac withdraws from the editorship of the Loyset Compere collected-works edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 31 March 1955 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | To make things easier, Carapetyan withdraws invitation; he did not know that Reese was associated with Carl Fischer. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 3 August 1955 | Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | John Ward | Carapetyan is leaving for Europe indefinitely. "We shall again operate from Europe, but we shall have a subscription and distribution center on this side, at Dallas, Texas." There was an Amsterdam office, but "they never managed to do things right (and that is why we had to discontinue the office there)." | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder C |
| August 1955 | Tucson, Arizona (United States) | John Ward | Armen Carapetyan | Ward discusses lost copies of CMM volumes. | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder C |
| 20 December 1955 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese is in touch with Catherine Brooks; he assures Carapetyan that Brooks is working with Reese on the Antoine Busnoys chansons, and they are making steady progress through the pieces; the edition should be finished by Spring 1956. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 11 April 1956 | Armen Carapetyan | Gerhard Croll | Carapetyan is not sure about publishing Croll's 1954 dissertation on Gaspar van Weerbeke; MSD has been problematic and published mostly esoteric scholarship so far. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives | |
| 4 October 1956 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | John Ward | "Are you able to tell me in what state you found Otto [Gombosi]'s work on [Hayne van] Ghizegem? As you know he was to edit [Alexander] Agricola and Ghizegem. Both composers have been re-assigned, and the Agricola man needs no material; but [C. W. H.] Lindeburg (Holland) would very much like to benefit by Otto's work, with of course due credit to the latter. All our CMM and CSM contracts have the following provision: Article X -"The author agrees to provide that in the event of death before the completion of the work, all pertinent material will be surrendered by his heirs to AIM. In such a case AIM will pay the heirs a just compensation for the material received. Any advance payment(s) made to the author will be reckoned in such compensation.", "My wife wrote to Anne [Gombosi], as we understood that she is the legal heir, but we have had no response, and we imagine the possibility of human elements playing a part, since Otto had in his last adventures been in rather close touch with me." | Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, John Milton Ward papers, ca. 1942–1996, 2007MTW-1 Folder C |
| 21 January 1957 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Josephine Waters Bennett | Carapetyan encloses some information to be reproduced in "Renaissance News." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 5, Folder 330 (Carapetyan, Armen) |
| 12 February 1957 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan is at his winter home. He recounts the unraveling of Father P. J. De Bruijn's project [presumably, his translation of Ghiselin Danckerts's "Sopra una differentia musicale... contra Don Nicola Vicentino"]. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 2 March 1957 | P.O.Box 1649, Tucson, Arizona (United States) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky offers details about his projects. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 19 May 1958 | The Old House, Strettington, Chichester, Sussex, England (United Kingdom) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "I brought my family to England last autumn, chiefly to put our children to private schools here. I shall be here, and at the above address, until September; then probably on the Continent. The Dallas and Rome addresses will always serve." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 21 July 1958 | The Old House, Strettington, Chichester, Sussex, England (United Kingdom) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Father P. J. de Bruijn came to Rome in 1946, with requests from Albert Smijers. Joseph Smits van Waesberghe held on to De Bruijn's manuscript for two years and made Carapetyan lie to cover his tardiness; all of this led to a rupture between Carapetyan and De Bruijn. "Although for some years my attention has turned chiefly to earlier epochs, the 16th century has by no means been out of sight. There is so much in that century that is yet to be gone into." "You may have noticed that another volume of [Adrian] Willaert finally came out, after having been bogged down for five years between engraver, printers (Italians!) and editor. I keep pushing Prof. [Walter] Gerstenberg, as also [Joseph] Schmidt-Görg, both of them very nice men but not furious workers in editing. With [Hermann] Zenck I daresay the Willaert edition would by now be near its end." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 2 March 1959 | Clytus Gottwald | Armen Carapetyan | Gottwald, a graduate student, reaches out to Carapetyan, to ask if he could edit the works of Johannes Ghiselin, about whom he is writing a dissertation. He has transcribed all the works by the composer. | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 2 April 1959 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | Carapetyan is theoretically interested and asks for more information. He also would like Gottwald to prepare an article for MD. | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 8 May 1959 | Clytus Gottwald | Armen Carapetyan | Gottwald provides Carapetyan material for a potential Johannes Ghiselin edition. | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 9 July 1959 | Armen Carapetyan | Heinrich Besseler | Carapetyan asks if they should keep to the same paper made specially for Guillaume Du Fay in Italy and which has been sitting for ten years; it is complicated to import the paper to Germany; he is off to Holland where 18 publications have been delayed. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 | |
| 4 September 1959 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | Carapetyan responds that he would be pleased to publish: “I have always been particularly interested in bringing to light the works of lesser known composers, especially of the 15th century.” | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 9 September 1959 | Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Gaston Allaire | Carapetyan responds to Allaire that he is theoretically interested in a Claudin de Sermisy edition; he needs a sense of scope and the current condition of preparation. "Production does not become easier as time passes." | Libraries and Archives Canada, Gaston Allaire fonds (R12303-0-0-E), Folder 2 (Correspondence) |
| 19 October 1959 | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "I will not conceal that, after so many years of teaching, it was somewhat of a disappointment to me not to teach. But I have been trying to do my bit to put tools in the hands of those who teach and those who study." He notes that Catherine Brooks seems to have disappeared. "Even [Guillaume] Dufay has been roused from his slumbers, for [Heinrich] Besseler has finally returned to him and we have a new volume in preparation at the printers!"; names as possible composers to focus on [Marbrianus] de Orto, [Johannes] Stochem, [Alexander] Agricola, [Johannes] Martini; Carapetyan may pass on the Agricola edition; after Otto Gombosi's death, Agricola was delayed and went to the Germans, who did nothing. Edward Lerner is now the editor. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 | |
| 31 October 1959 | Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan is using three printers in Holland, two in Germany, three in Italy, alongside own print-shop in America; he will spend winter months in Southern France on account of Harriette Carapetyan's health. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 16 November 1959 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky is hard at work on a book on the Medici Codex and would need time before turning to Giovanni Spataro and Ghiselin Danckerts. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 18 November 1959 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Catherine Brooks has had "abominable bad luck in obtaining philologically acceptable versions of the [Antoine Busnoys] texts"; the edition should be ready by Spring; Edward H. Clinkscale and Ronald Cross have not finished their dissertations. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 21 December 1959 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan did not realize that Plamenac was preparing a Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 January 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is annoyed that Carapetyan would state his intention to publish the edition, when Plamenac had staked a claim as early as 1953 and written so in "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 January 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is not a fan of Plamenac's attitude and would not have remembered something announced in 1953. On the Capirola Lutebook, Carapetyan writes "suddenly there was absolute silence, at the cost of monumental discourtesy on the part of the library and surprising behaviour on [Otto] Gombosi's part, who must have been drawn into a relative corruption (though we remained friends to the end)." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 February 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac will discuss Carapetyan's letter with Gilbert Reaney. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 11 February 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "I fear I have touched [Dragan] Plamenac's toes." He writes to Catherine Brooks about Antoine Busnoys. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 11 February 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | Carapetyan's work appears to have doubled in the past year. He may have upset Dragan Plamenac by including a partial facsimile of the Faenza Codex in MD; Edward E. Clinkscale has written to correct and complete the faulty Antoine Févin article. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 14 February 1960 | Clytus Gottwald | Armen Carapetyan | Gottwald started with Johannes Ghiselin's motets (there will be three volumes in total); he will send the second volume in February 1960. | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 29 February 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Lowinsky wants to publish the Giovanni Spataro letters; Carapetyan wants translation to English without original and suggests publishing in installments in MD. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 17 March 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese appreciates the article dedicated to Gustave Reese in MD; Gilbert Reaney has acted as a goodwill ambassador for MD with respect to the Dragan Plamenac/Faenza Codex issue. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 25 March 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Gerhard Croll | Carapetyan asks about the Gaspar van Weerbeke edition and now thinks a volume in MSD would be positive. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives |
| 25 March 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | [Dictated by Carapetyan] Carapetyan is coming to the US in April, may be able to meet Reese in New York; he has not heard from Catherine Brooks for years. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 18 April 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Gustave Reese | Armen Carapetyan | Reese appreciates Gilbert Reaney's "Early Fifteenth-Century Music" with its wonderful text underlay. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 |
| 1 May 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Gerhard Croll | Armen Carapetyan | Croll has been busy at the University of Münster working on his Habilitation and the collected-works edition for Christoph Willibald Gluck; Croll thinks he can get the first volume of the CMM edition to Carapetyan in 1961, and perhaps a volume in 1963, too. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives |
| 7 May 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Gerhard Croll | Carapetyan agrees to Croll's timeline for projects; Carapetyan mentions that he has spent the last two winters in Southern France. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives |
| 6 June 1960 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky was ready to sign a contract with Carapetyan for the Ghiselin Danckerts and Giovanni Spataro projects; mentions the review of Clemens non Papa Opera Omnia in "Notes." "I am worried, I confess, when I think that your magnificent editorial work is based practically on the life of one man alone--yourself." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 18 July 1960 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Lowinsky offered Giovanni Spataro's text to Carapetyan, who agrees in principle with the idea. Lowinsky's review in "Notes" led to harmful speculations and gossip among collaborators and "stirred a hornet's nest." Carapetyan replied in MD 14; "I have never used MD for personal venting or ventilation." "The 'administrative' and 'financial' aspects present no great problems." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 23 August 1960 | Benidorm (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Gaston Allaire | Carapetyan is hoping to resume discussion of the Claudin de Sermisy edition; he is interested in an article offered by Gaston Allaire for MD. | Libraries and Archives Canada, Gaston Allaire fonds (R12303-0-0-E), Folder 2 (Correspondence) |
| 25 March 1961 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | "Pierre de la Rue has been in the hands of [Walter] Rubsamen (in California) for many years. We have at various occasions forgone editions offered us in courtesy to Rubsamen. He wrote me a year and a half ago that he was about to start publication (by some German publisher) but it was recently reported to me that nothing has been done and no one knows just how the thing stands. A pity to hold up such an interesting edition." | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 8 May 1961 | Villa Jaune, St. Jean-de-Grasse, Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I am launching a Corpus of Early Keyboard Music, under the general editorship of Willi Apel. We intend to cover the ground pretty thoroughly from [the] Robertsbridge [Codex] to about 1600, then most of the important material from the 17th century." "The Faenza Codex cannot be missed in a corpus of this kind." "I could write to Mme. [Geneviève Thibault de] Chambure." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 19 June 1961 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is unable to give a definite answer to Carapetyan's proposal. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 September 1961 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Madame Geneviève Thibault de Chambure did not release Plamenac from his contract. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 9 November 1961 | Le Rouret, Alpes-Maritimes (France) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "I have sent you recently two of my publications to keep you in touch with my doings and to ensure you of my continued admiration and support for your great work." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 16 November 1961 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan thanks Lowinsky for the two publications; he is leaving for Florence. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 22 November 1961 | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | Hans Lenneberg has reached out to inquire about a Sebastian Virdung edition; but the edition needs to be "rechecked ... with Dr. Reese"; Carapetyan feels put in an awkward position as he has promised it. | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folders 192–194 | |
| 24 January 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi approaches Carapetyan about a possible Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 16 February 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is interested in a Jean-Philippe Rameau edition, but is not yet ready to commit; it would have to be in English, since the market is the United States (and musicologists there are not comfortable with French); France is a "tenth-rate power, musicologically." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 13 March 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees broadly with Carapetyan's terms and will send material. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 21 March 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi continues his letter to include details on all of Jean-Philippe Rameau's theoretical writings. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 30 March 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests asking Paul Hindemith for a preface for the edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 11 May 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has received microfilms of Jean-Philippe Rameau's works; he interested in visiting Carapetyan to discuss various questions for the edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 4 July 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has not received a response from Carapetyan since February 1962. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 6 July 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is interested in the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition, but has two problems with the project: financing and production; "of the 30 editions in CMM in progress or completed, and others in preparation, none has gone without subsidy. So also with the editions in CSM, MSD, all the rest, with the difference that these series have required even heavier subsidy, especially CSM." He raises questions of cost of production in Switzerland and costs of reproduction of microfilm for images in volumes. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 22 July 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | It is difficult to meet over summer, but possible in autumn in France; Carapetyan is interested in having an introduction from Paul Hindemith. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 30 July 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is in favor of a subscription in advance and thinks that reproduction of films in Switzerland will be better for quality, with relatively small difference in price. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 8 September 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Buckdruckerei Winterthur AG had interest in printing and would have the advantage of being closely monitored by Jacobi. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 15 September 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The samples from the printer were not acceptable. The subscription will be limited: "France will not absorb 10 copies of the set, I assure you." He needs a minimum number of subscriptions to launch the edition and doubts that 2,000 copies will be purchased within a number of years. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 9 October 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests the first two volumes of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition could be published in 1964 for the 200th anniversary of Rameau's death. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 24 October 1962 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi describes antiquarian interest in Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Nouveau système de musique théorique"; he asks Carapetyan to make a final decision. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 1 November 1962 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | "With this letter I pick up our correspondence, which was broken off years ago by your characteristic and entertaining letter of April 1, 1950." "Since your last letter was written, a good many changes have taken place. The American Institute of Musicology has flourished; the American Musicological Society has flourished; finally, as you may have heard, I myself have taken over the direction of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae." Strunk suggests a joint publication series, and his successor as AMS president, Donald Grout, seems interested. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 |
| 3 November 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "When 16 years ago I signed a contract in Rome that was to see the opera omnia of [Guillaume] Dufay out in two years I thought it an eternity. Today we are not yet done with the edition." "Speaking in terms of business only, the musicological 'market' is very narrow yet frightfully flooded"; he agrees to circulate the subscription list in advance, possible to issue one or two volumes by 1964 if printers cooperate; various requirements that Jacobi needs to agree to, including circulation of 1000 rather than 2000 copies; does not want production to stretch over a long period of time. If Jacobi agrees, they can proceed. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 5 November 1962 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | "I have not had the fortune of meeting you personally." Carapetyan is interested in joint publications. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 |
| 13 November 1962 | Oliver Strunk | Donald J. Grout | "To my not inconsiderable astonishment, my letter to Carapetyan evoked a prompt reply." "The AMS might conceivably offer to relieve Carapetyan of the expense of maintaining an office in Dallas, Texas, transferring the whole operation of storage and distribution to Philadelphia." "As you know, Carapetyan is inclined to be obstinate and quarrelsome, so that it will not be easy to persuade him to make any changes in his existing arrangements." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 | |
| 14 November 1962 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees broadly with Carapetyan's terms; he explains expenses thus far and requests compensation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 30 November 1962 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | "A 10% royalty, of net income, is paid. Non-commercial organization putting out learned publications do not pay a high royalty, if at all, and usually not before all costs have been met. I know that even an important commercial house like Breitkopf and Härtel paid a wretched royalty before the war (I think 3%) in such series as the ['Publikationen älterer Musik']" "Some editions do not cover expenses even after a few years." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 |
| 11 December 1962 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Strunk writes to say that letter has been received. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 |
| 17 December 1962 | Donald J. Grout | Oliver Strunk | "Carapetyan's letter seems to lay out the 'problem' quite comprehensively." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1574 | |
| 20 December 1962 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "We pay 10% as royalty (10% of actual money taken in, not of the list price)… I know that great houses, for example Breitkopf und Härtel, paid 3% before the war for such editions in musicology as the ['Publikationen älterer Musik']… as for discount on books purchased by the author, we allow him what we allow to booksellers, which however is not more than 15%... From 4 to 6 copies of the work, according to the case, are allowed to the author gratis... In the past we have many times advanced large sums of money to authors who have had considerable expenditures in preparation of the work, even though offered by themselves and not commissioned by us... Alas, there have been cases where it has been consideration thrown to the winds, to say the least. A considerable capital has been lost with some who never fulfilled their commitments, and who have had to be dropped. At all events, with the advance of years and of work and of costs and above all of our own commitments, this policy has had to be suspended. I am sure you will see the point." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 8 January 1963 | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Nathan Broder set up the ad hoc committee with Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel, and Nino Pirrotta. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 | |
| 9 January 1963 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has received a copy of the contract and agrees to the plan; he asks for additional compensation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 12 January 1963 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | “Speaking of our publications, I must tell you that I have definitely decided to pass the [Antoine] Brumel edition to someone. I lost all my transcriptions and a great deal of material ten years ago in this country. Since then we have been mostly moving from one country to another, in the meantime the editorial and administrative work increasing every year.” | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 16 January 1963 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks questions about the printing template and is working with printer in Switzerland. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 22 January 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | "One of my greatest regrets is the discontinuation years ago of our summer sessions."… "Years ago I was urged by the Italians to start [a cultural center, for Americans operating in Europe]… today my library is dispersed in at least four countries, and my film collection is not up to date nor in good organization, thanks to so many years of vagrant life, mostly for the Institute's sake, as also for the family health." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 31 January 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Claude Palisca brought up the summer sessions conducted by AIM at the American Academy in Rome. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 13 February 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan recommends that they print elsewhere, given the strain on Jacobi's finances; the costs of translation are Jacobi's own; it is up to Jacobi to provide the final manuscript; the printer/binder must agree to ship the books to subscribers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 22 February 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Scholarly and university obligations prevent Jacobi from hastening with the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; he asks about the minimum subscriber number. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 9 March 1963 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi continues his letter from 22 February; he would like to reproduce microfilms in Switzerland. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 10 April 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Carapetyan is remodeling his house in Spain, which explains his delayed response. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 6 May 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | AIM was not discussed at the AMS board meeting, so there is nothing yet to report. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 4 July 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Geneviève Thibault de Chambure | Carapetyan asks Thibault de Chambure to give up the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 July 1963 | Geneviève Thibault de Chambure | Armen Carapetyan | Thibault de Chambure is willing to give up Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 14 August 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan has too many obligations and no easy way to reduce them; he has not received the necessary information about what to charge for the edition, from which he could deduce Jacobi's honorarium. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 19 August 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Strunk wants to meet with Carapetyan, but detests flying and travels only by boat; he is in Copenhagen and proposes Amsterdam as a meeting point. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 31 August 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests changes to proposed edition; he wants a Swiss firm L. Speich to handle the reproductions of microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 13 September 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Carapetyan opted not to travel. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 25 October 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Geneviève Thibault de Chambure | "[Dragan] Plamenac had, as you know, an invitation, when I did not know his commitment to you, to edit this work. Now that you have released him he might have communicated with me." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 5 November 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Carapetyan does not intend to embark on any journeys in the near future. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 6 November 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Madame Geneviève Thibault de Chambure has released the Faenza Codex edition for CEKM. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 14 November 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | In a report to the American Council of Learned Societies about future needs of the fields, the AMS includes a long-range program of publications and support for a musicological center in Europe, both of which a partnership with AIM could fulfill. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 6 December 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "There are some who seemingly thrive on argument and dispute, even when brought about by misunderstanding or by common human failure. In the very rare cases – two that I recall – where, for the sake at least of principle, I have entered a dispute, I have done so deploring the necessity." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 December 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Carapetyan is interested in both aspects named in the memorandum; Carapetyan notes that of the twenty-nine titles in the publication, only nine are complete. CMM 30–36 (including Philippe Verdelot) have started preparation. A number of others have been accepted but not yet received. And there are a list of in-study series, including Jean Mouton, Andreas de Silva, Jean Richafort, and Gaspar van Weerbeke. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 18 December 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Strunk wants more serious collaboration than just supporting individual volumes; to go beyond this, he would need a "clear picture of the financial situation of the Institute, of its assets and liabilities and of the present sources of its support." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 22 December 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac has just retired and wants to work "full steam" on the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 31 December 1963 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Carapeytan describes the assets of the institute: a) "good will" on the part of clients, b) printed stock, "eventual sale value of this stock must reach well beyond a quarter of a million dollars", c) small amount of equipment, including a small lithoprinting press, small hand press, dozen typewriters, etc., and d) sale of publications and subsidy by Carapetyan. Current bills for printing and current expenses are the only liabilities of the Institute at the moment. He sees increasing costs of publication as an ongoing potential problem and suggests collaboration on particular publications. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1575 |
| 17 January 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Strunk is thinking about a specific project on which the AMS and AIM could collaborate. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1576 |
| 24 January 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "[Guillaume] Dufay VI is the volume of chansons: an enormity for editor and publisher." "I am perfectly willing to sign a contract with you." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 29 January 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Eleanor Lawry | Carapetyan thanks Lawry for bringing to Carapetyan's attention her work on Claude Goudimel; he would like to consider Goudimel's psalm motets and asks for samples. "The series Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae is heavily committed and now the question rises whether my lifetime will see the commitment fulfilled. But with the hope that what has been and is to be accomplished will not hinge solely on the life of one man, and on the other hand with the compulsion felt each time significant material readied for publication appears on the horizon, one bends, despite practical considerations." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 714 |
| 2 February 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | In late August, Carapetyan had a painful kidney stone; he was glad to hear that Jacobi was reducing background and foreground material; he agrees in principle to the Swiss reproduction of microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 6 March 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi reiterates his interest in producing a Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 22 March 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac returns a copy of the contract, which Plamenac had attempted to mail on 31 January; he is unable to say when the manuscript will be completed. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 30 March 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I am willing to keep your proposal in mind, and we shall consider it when you send in your Ms - which I hope will not be long in coming!" | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 April 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Eleanor Lawry | "We have at this very moment 44 editions in our several series in the works" with 140 volumes yet to go; "I am sorry I must write in this vein (and I have surprised myself by writing to you as I have not done so far to anyone else); and I of course regret that I am not sending you a contract instead." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 714 |
| 12 April 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky speaks favorably on behalf of Hans Tischler. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 20 April 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Hans Tischler's manuscript returned, as it never became finalized; "At the start of my initiative the sky became beclouded thanks to [Leo] Schrade (whose collaboration was forced and foisted upon me by himself"… "Later you were I think displeased in connection with the edition of [Guillaume] Dufay, partly because of that misfortune that was [Guillaume] de Van and partly by [Heinrich] Besseler's hysteria of the moment. That too has cleared – though poor Dufay is still waiting completion, with all the talk 17 years ago that Besseler had the edition nearly ready, and though he took it over 15 years ago!" | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 26 April 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky thanks Carapetyan for his generous decision regarding Hans Tischler's edition of early motets. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 6 May 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees to conclude negotiations and ready to countersign contract; he is ready to bind himself to an agreement; he will be shortly in Paris. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 11 May 1964 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan responds to Lowinsky's letter about the Guillaume Du Fay volume. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 28 May 1964 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | François Lesure is ready to provide RISM material for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; Jacobi wants Carapetyan to approve making microfilms of material from a private collection. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 17 June 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is finishing an article on Jean-Philippe Rameau for "Musical Quarterly"; wants confirmation of the edition to add as a footnote for the article. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 25 June 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan underwent a serious operation; Carapetyan is increasingly interested in the edition, but thinks that Jacobi should choose another publisher. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 26 June 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky asks for advice about a 1000 copy edition size for "Monuments of Renaissance Music." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 9 July 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees to a conditional start; he would like Carapetyan to fill in the details so that he can sign the copy. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 24 July 1964 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "We have never managed so far a distribution beyond 350 copies. In fact, very few of our editions have yet reached that point, and many of them are still struggling to climb to the 200 mark. Admittedly, we do no commercially practiced publicity; most of our editions are too highly specialized"; "I must also admit that I have become somewhat numb in this process of subsidy and seem to be keeping to a bad habit"; "It is also conceivable that we are still suffering the effects of ill will created early in our career by the [Guillaume] de Van episode, by [Heinrich] Besseler's cries, by [Paul Henry] Lang's fits." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 | |
| 3 August 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "I confess that I was shocked to learn what a struggle you have been waging in your great enterprise. Owning some fifty-odd volumes published by you it never occurred to me that other musicologists would do without these valuable tools in their private libraries. I am gladdened to hear that sales have picked up somewhat in the last years." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 7 August 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks if Carapetyan will attend the Salzburg IMS conference and reminds him about sending the contract; notes that Philip Gossett is preparing an English edition of the "Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels," but Gossett has renounced the facsimile edition as to not encroach on Jacobi's territory. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 24 August 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan was fighting for her life and was gravely ill; Carapetyan attaches the contract. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 6 September 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan acknowledges Lowinsky's letter. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Box 56, Folder 6 |
| 16 September 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi returns signed contract. He indicates that Barry Brook has interest in publishing Philip Gossett's edition through Dover; wants Carapetyan to communicate to Brook "to make it clear to everybody, that our edition will be published as the authentic, reliable, and complete edition of [Jean-Philippe] Rameau's writings and no other, and that already much work and money has been invested by the editor in this far-reaching project." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 4 October 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Hellmut Federhofer | At Salzburg, Donald Grout suggested that Erwin Jacobi make the Jean-Philippe Rameau project known in "Acta Musicologica"; Carapetyan is unable to attend the congress owing to Harriette Carapetyan's operation. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 27 October 1964 | Barry S. Brook | Armen Carapetyan | Brook responds to a letter from Carapetyan: to avoid duplication, the IMS committee in charge are recommending that Philip Gossett publish only the English translation and abandon the facsimile edition; he suggests possible cooperation on an edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 2 November 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Hellmut Federhofer | Armen Carapetyan | Federhofer thanks Carapetyan for the text announcing the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; he will figure out what form Carapetyan's publication notice should take. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 9 November 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Barry S. Brook | Brook is interested in cooperation. "As for the 'long-needed rapproachment', it is kind of you to feel so. Exactly two years ago [Oliver] Strunk approached me in that vein – from my part quite unexpectedly. It was good of him. I imagine you know something about it. So far as I am aware, my response was correct, to say the least. Friends, some of them members of the Society, were skeptical. My own attitude was, and has been, that I had gone it alone these many years and could keep going to an end, but that if something meaningful and fruitful could be accomplished, it could be a happy arrangement and to greater service to American musicology – and even to its greater glory, perhaps! There is only one change in my position: I was concerned, when corresponding with Prof. Strunk, about continuity of what I had been endeavoring to do. I am no longer so concerned." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 25 November 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan encloses Barry Brook's letter. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 6 December 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is willing to consider a joint enterprise, but with the condition that he would get to edit the whole edition to the standards previously agreed upon with Carapetyan. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 8 December 1964 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Armen Carapetyan | Strunk aims to renew efforts, which appeared to have stalled. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1576 |
| 29 January 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | For the Jacques Arcadelt edition, Carapetyan asked Albert Seay for estimate on delivery of volumes. "Seay is an assiduous and reliable worker, but I should not dare putting down a time limit"… "Arcadelt will certainly not be completed in less than 5 to 7 years, unless Seay delivers all Mss. within 2-3 years and we manage to expand engraving facilities - something I am constantly after. As for cost, all I can give you is today's prices. Most of our work is being done in Germany and Holland, and inflation in these countries has been, and promises to be, devastating of all budget-making. An average volume of no more than 150 pages of polyphony, done in the quality of CMM costs today some $3000 to $4000, depending upon the kind and quantity of Critical Notes and other introductory material. What this will become in 5 years I cannot say, except that the last 5 years have almost doubled costs in Europe, and that this year itself warning is being given about rises in wages"; he needs help with distribution of publications in the United States. | University of Pennsylvania, Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 1, Folder 23 |
| 14 February 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Gerhard Croll | Armen Carapetyan | Responding to a letter by Carapetyan, Croll still has serious intentions about the Gaspar van Weerbeke edition and wants to begin with the Milanese motet cycles. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives |
| 9 March 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is pleased to receive the 1964 catalogue of AIM publications with special notice of the Rameau edition; he asks about reaching out to Barry Brook with regard to cooperation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 15 March 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Louise Cuyler | Armen Carapetyan | Cuyler relays the unanimous approval of AMS board for publication. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1576 |
| 2 April 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Barry Brook finally responded, declining cooperation: "all these months are lost! That is what comes almost always out of ideas of co-operation in such things. We must now study a way of reasonably rapid realization of the plan." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 4 April 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | "There are more than 40 titles in CMM at present in the works. I am hoping for a more rapid completion of at least some of the old items. [Heinrich] Besseler has at last finished [Guillaume] Dufay. If I could get more action out of [Walter] Gerstenberg (hopelessly delinquent), my good old friend [Joseph] Schmidt-Görg, ubiquitous [Denis] Stevens, worthy but slow [Denis] Arnold, [Fritz] Feldmann the eternal procrastinator and a man of poor health, [John] Bergsagel the weak and afflicted, my dear friend [Nino] Pirrotta!....", total cost of [Jacques] Arcadelt edition is $40,000, and the AMS wanted to put forward $10,000 over five years, but budget depending. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 1, Folder 23 |
| 28 April 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees with Carapetyan and is working to get quotes for costs. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 30 April 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Following discussions with the printer L. Speich, Jacobi asks Carapetyan about a particular size for pages for the edition that would be cheaper. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 4 May 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan agrees to Jacobi's size for the edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 18 May 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends an update about the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 1 June 1965 | Irving Broude | Armen Carapetyan | The plan to publish facsimile edition has come to Broude Brothers's attention; it has already gone to press, and he cannot cancel publication. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 4 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan asks about Albert Schweitzer, notes that his "acquaintance with him, beyond his books, limits itself to a long discussion years ago in London, after his three lectures on religio-philosophical topics"; need 375 subscriptions to cover printing costs alone (not including discount, royalty, overhead, publicity); for the first volume, 375 volumes will bring in $6075 gross. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 9 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Heinrich Besseler | Carapetyan denounces Walter Gerstenberg; apparently Eva Zenck made him turn the edition over to Gerstenberg. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 | |
| 10 June 1965 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac has finished teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and ready to "complete the edition at the earliest possible date." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 12 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Irving Broude | "Your letter… came as something of a shock. We too have had the [Jean-Philippe] Rameau edition in our plans now for a few years"; Broude never seemed to hear of the AMS discussions with Barry Brook; Carapetyan asks for clarification to figure out how to proceed. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 15 June 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends an update about Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 16 June 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi received legal advice to hasten as much as possible and to compete with Broude Brothers by being more professional; he doubts that Broude will publish all works. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 16 June 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is sending his copy of the fascimiles for the Faenza Codex to save Plamenac time. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 19 June 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Another German firm is publishing one of Jean-Philippe Rameau's major works in facsimile; Jacobi offers to split 50/50 advertising costs in a series of journals; Jacobi is convinced that no one is prepared as he is to take on this project. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 21 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is not happy with the Swiss printer's limitations; offering the prospectus will take time; he "will not give up the project just because some merchants are offering competition. But if it turns out that Broude has a comprehensive and scholarly edition, I fear both of us are in for a disappointment." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 22 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Irving Broude | Carapetyan sends letter describing the forecasted AIM Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; asks for clearer explanation about Broude's edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 26 June 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "This has been a month of clashes. Three editions in CMM have seen the same fate as [Jean-Philippe] Rameau"; "if we can endure the financial burden for a time, probably in the long run we shall come out not too badly hurt"; not sure that advertising will lead to productive outcomes; needs complete prospectus; removes condition of number of subscriptions. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 27 June 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a prospectus draft. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 28 June 1965 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Heinrich Besseler | Armen Carapetyan | "Herzlichen Dank für alles, was Sie schreiben, auch die interessanten Dinge über [Walter] Gerstenberg (der ein kleiner Forscher ist, aber sich mit allen Mitteln bekannt will.)" | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 |
| 28 June 1965 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Hellmut Federhofer | Armen Carapetyan | James Haar had sent in a great article to "Acta Musicologica," but the journal cannot publish it; wants to forward it to MD. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection |
| 5 July 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi wants to continue with the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; sends detailed information for prospectus; notes that Broude's editions are often expensive. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 7 July 1965 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara | Armen Carapetyan | Hellmut Federhofer | Carapetyan asks to include an announcement in "Acta Musicologica" about the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 8 July 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan sent off prospectus to America this morning; he raised the price of edition a bit. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 13 July 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees with Carapetyan's suggestions for the layout of the volumes. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 13 July 1965 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Hellmut Federhofer | Armen Carapetyan | Federhofer did not know about another edition of Jean-Philippe Rameau's theoretical works; will publish Carapetyan's announcement, not in "Acta Musicologica," but in the Communiqués of the IMS; wants the text in English, French, and German. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 25 July 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Irving Broude | "Your letter and circular enclosed show clearly a fundamental difference between your [Jean-Philippe] Rameau edition and ours… therefore, even if without priority in announced plan… we would not relinquish our edition." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 2 August 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends information from Heinrichshofen Verlag, which agrees to renounce previous plans to re-publish Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 11 August 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan corrected proofs of the prospectus three weeks previously and sent them back; he sends last letter to Irving Broude; having an edition that appears richer could help distinguish the effort from the competition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 11 August 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Hellmut Federhofer | James Haar's article has not reached Carapetyan; asks Federhofer to trace the package at the post office. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection | |
| 17 August 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is not sure how to find another printer ready to take on the edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 23 August 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan interested in publishing a German edition from Tübingen; AMS interested in further collaboration beyond the Jacques Arcadelt edition, and Carapetyan is intrigued by their proposals. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 29 August 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a German version of the prospectus. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 1 September 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi approves the prospectus. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 3 September 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan will be in Lugano briefly to meet with Oliver Strunk, and would be interested to meet, if possible. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 17 September 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees with Carapetyan about the size of the volumes. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 28 September 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan and Jacobi met in Rapperswil. "[L.] Speich's prices are by no means such as to justify what will in the end appear as if we were economizing." There are three possibilities: Germany, Holland, and America. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 6 October 1965 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Gerhard Croll | Armen Carapetyan | Croll's work on the Gaspar van Weerbeke motet cycles is progressing. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives |
| 8 October 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Reported by Oliver Strunk: "Today I had a letter from [Albert] Seay, reporting progress with [Jacques] Arcadelt. He was also very pleased with the first volume. However, he is very generous in his appreciation of what I do in publishing his works; very kind. And he is really a most satisfactory collaborator. Life would have been another thing if all my collaborators had been like him." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 1255 | |
| 11 October 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has ordered new samples from L. Speich. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 14 October 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "The question is now what Broude [Brothers] would want of us by way of collaboration… Doubtless [Irving] Broude will want participation of a sort that will mean business gain for him. It is too late to take part in another sense." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 14 October 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan doubts whether a two-printer option is feasible ("[L.] Speich's prices were already very difficult"). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 18 October 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks whether Broude Brothers might sell all his printed or photographed material. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 31 October 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "I should like to give you liberty to join Broude [Brothers] in the project if you as soon do so. This sincerely and in a friendly spirit. After all, with me the project is still on probation, so to speak, though I have all along taken an optimistic view of it." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 2 November 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending new proofs from L. Speich. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 4 November 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | A larger edition might be possible in Holland; the closer the reproduction is to the original printed area, the better. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 8 November 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan must break negotiations with L. Speich; he has asked for an estimate from printers in Holland and America. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 9 November 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is not ending collaboration with Jacobi and will inform Jacobi about subscriptions. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 12 November 1965 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The estimate from Holland is better than that from Switzerland; sixty subscriptions so far registered in Dallas; tells Jacobi to have all materials ready for vols. 1 and 2; needs 200 subscriptions by early 1966; "Prices in Holland and Germany go up every few months. On the other hand we have fixed a price now. By the experience of the past years I should expect a rise of at least 40% from the present estimate by the end of the [Jean-Philippe] Rameau edition." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 18 November 1965 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Holland is preferable to the United States, owing to the cost of material expenses; will wait until the decision is definite to inform L. Speich. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 20 November 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Collective Editors | “The subject of this letter is author’s or editor’s royalties. To my embarrassment, some of you have not received statements for a rather long time. This is due to rapidly increasing office work every month, while we remain critically short of hands – and we remain dispersed, which causes even more work. 1965 has completed the 20th year of my endeavors in musicology’s behalf. Without going into an account, even in the barest outline, of what these 20 years have meant in labors, vexations, worries, in health itself, I shall come to the point to say that on the financial side the 20 years have been anything but felicitous. I have had to subsidize, personally, all of our publications all these years… Some of the earliest titles offered (by inexperience and good faith) at a fixed subscription price and paid for many years ago but until today not yet completed have been catastrophic as costs have been rising (and indeed are rising still, especially in Europe where we produce most of our works), so that by now the prices received years ago cover not even a fourth of actual costs, without wondering about future years that the editions in question will take, at the rate we have been going, to be completed.” | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 5 December 1965 | Armen Carapetyan | Gerhard Croll | Carapetyan asks Croll if he is serious about publishing Gaspar van Weerbeke's music. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives | |
| 10 January 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan worries about printers and postage is needless; all materials go through Carapetyan; "every time I have had author and printer in direct communication I have had to pay dearly for it"; only 100 Dallas subscriptions and eight in Tübingen (two Swiss), but will go ahead with the project; if it becomes a financial burden, "you yourself may have to waive your royalty until such a moment when sales will have covered the worst of the deficit." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 25 January 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | A review of Broude Brothers's edition seems to have been ordered by Irving Broude; amazed that Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Fribourg have not ordered subscriptions (presuming the two ordered so far are one by Jacobi for a friend, and one by Kurt von Fischer in Zurich); wants a definite answer about microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 27 January 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan provides procedures for microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 25 February 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees to limit text as desired by Carapetyan; will get started with the general preface to the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition and the prefaces for vols. 1 and 2. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 2 March 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi relays reactions from scholars regarding the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition (too expensive for some; others concerned with the competition with Broude Brothers). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 17 March 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent the general preface for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to Sister Michaela Keane in the USA for help with translation; working on prefaces for vols. 1 and 2. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 19 March 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Jacobi needs to have good microfilms for printing; Carapetyan will be in the United States from mid-April 1966 for six-to-eight weeks. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 2 April 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks questions about microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 2 April 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan wants a test strip of microfilm sent to Dallas. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 7 April 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan will use method of plate making from enlargements and offset printing. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 14 April 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Microfilm samples have been sent to Dallas. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 21 April 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan requests that Jacobi notify him when microfilms are ready. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 25 April 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent the general preface for Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to Carapetyan. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 27 April 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi forwards his response to Ludwig Finscher regarding a review of the publication. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 May 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Microfilms are being prepared to be made; Carapetyan should make a decision since books need to be returned. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 17 May 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "The floods damaged a large amount of our publications in a warehouse, as also some precious books of my personal library. We are involved in a lawsuit and all its unpleasantness and less of time." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 23 May 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Microfilms will be made for Jacobi. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 25 May 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "I think you did well to mention your experience with the French authorities about [the Jean-Philippe] Rameau. But less sure am I about your mention of me, though of course it was kind and generous." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 8 June 1966 | c/o Centrale Drukkerij y Bos Reklame Industrie, 44 St. Teunismolenweg, Nijmegen, Holland (The Netherlands) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi will send instructions to Dallas while Carapetyan is in the United States. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 10 June 1966 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending general preface for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to Carapetyan. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 14 June 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "The days in Dallas were a veritable 'corvée'. Much else had to be cancelled because of the disaster at the warehouse. Even visits to brothers and sisters of both my wife and myself, looked for since many years, had to be cancelled. You hoped we had good insurance coverage. There is no insurance in America against floods (Act of God). There was gross negligence on the part of the warehouse owner. This means litigation. But we already know that the warehouse is as good as bankrupt, while we have some $6000.00 worth of loss, but tens of thousands more if we are to reprint to complete broken sets." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 21 June 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks to settle costs for films and photos. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 25 June 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan acknowledges Jacobi's letters. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 25 June 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan agrees to cover some costs for films and photos. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 1 July 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Sister Michaela Keane was not a good translator, so will need to hire a translator; asks if Carapetyan will cover costs. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 8 July 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "A manuscript in its final, pressworthy condition, is the author's responsibility. Therefore, in view specially of the recent calamity (the last estimate for replacements is well over $100,000, and the warehouse is bankrupt), I must leave the matter of translation to you." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 July 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition is being translated; Jacobi agrees to pay for translation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 10 August 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates on various volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; notes that Philip Gossett's translation is complete will be ready sometime during 1967. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 August 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent corrections for vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 27 August 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Carapetyan adds sentence to vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition forgotten by translator. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 9 September 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "A [manuscript] that keeps undergoing changes while with the printer brings about trouble." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 September 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan reports a microfilm defect whereby pages were not entirely open leading to curved lines. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 14 September 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for information to correct microfilm defect. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 7 October 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends an update about requested information for image being reproduced in the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 12 October 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan asks for the introduction to vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to be sent to Dallas as soon as possible. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 21 October 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates on various volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 3 November 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi explains delays in finishing the introduction for vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; asks for review copies to be sent to select journals. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 November 1966 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan asks for Jacobi to send microfilms to the Central Drukkerij in Nijmegen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 18 November 1966 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | There is confusion over microfilms for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition, which were sent to Dallas in June 1966. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 22 November 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Unexpected delays in America mean that printing in Holland is the right option; the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition will be printed at Centrale Drukkerij & Bos Reklame Industrie; instructs Jacobi not to send instructions to the printer ("for one thing it only plays into the hands of printers for disowning responsibility for possible errors"); "this printer, with whom I have excellent relations during 18 years" can print quickly. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 25 November 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers corrections for vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 November 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi thinks the Swiss firm would have been easier in the long run. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 10 December 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan has interpreted Jacobi's corrections and has sent them off to printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 December 1966 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers details for proofs for vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 27 December 1966 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is sending second proofs to Jacobi. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 1 January 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi relays a typography preference. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 9 January 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has sent proofs back to Willemsen, who will send back a final proof. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 January 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi relays instructions that were sent to Willemsen about proofs for vol. 1. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 18 January 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "Well, [Guillaume] Dufay is done - after 20 years of agony, after the misery with [Guillaume] de Van and the charming deal I got for it (of which you know or will recall something), after a huge sum lost in a lawsuit, after years of trying experience with [Heinrich] Besseler, who had big advances during the first two years or so, when he was out of a job, only to forget me for years after, and after having printed the motets for a third time! It is an accomplishment... especially if you consider that the new edition of the motets cost me about $7,500 and so far we have sold about 8 volumes." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 23 January 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan tells Jacobi to stop sending so much correspondence and to stop sending letters to the printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 January 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks Carapetyan to insert a notice of the Jean-Philippe Rameau publication into "Notes." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 27 January 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan criticizes Jacobi for delays. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 January 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi explains why he is delayed in providing the introduction to vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 2 February 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates on various volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 6 February 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan asks about the duty on foreign cars in Switzerland (in summer 1966 Carapetyan bought a Peugot with TT plates [tourist] and now it seems he must dispose of the car, as the Spanish duty is high). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 8 February 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "I should be delighted – and surprised – if within a year of publication we sell 311 copies, as in the case of Tosi!" | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 February 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers more details about microfilms. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 11 February 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi provides details about duties on cars and suggests that Carapetyan sell his car in France. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) | |
| 13 February 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends information about forthcoming and existing reviews of both his Jean-Philippe Rameau and Johann Friedrich Agricola editions. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 18 February 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapeytan regrets the extension of time for pre-publication price for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 21 February 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The Jean-Philippe Rameau edition will probably be printed in the United States, where type setting is extremely high, but faster than in Europe; Carapetyan asks Jacobi to reduce text without sacrificing essentials. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (2) |
| 6 March 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan reminds Jacobi of the contract; prefers only making available the edition through subscription; delays on the part of the publisher will break the agreement with the buyer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 7 March 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | The final proofs of vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition have been returned to the printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 8 March 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "I have completed my transcription of the Faenza Codex and am now occupied with making a clean copy of it for the printer." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 9 March 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan offers advice on how to print opera editions. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 7 April 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates on various volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 14 April 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I have put through editions a good deal more complicated, I daresay, than [the] Faenza [Codex, which] [sic.] is likely to be without a personal discussion with the editor, though this is always good and pleasant." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 April 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi encloses a review of his Johann Friedrich Agricola edition; reports correspondence with Willemsen fixing errors in vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 1 May 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Division of direction is responsible for printing errors; he reminds Jacobi that the edition should be finished by the end of 1967. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 May 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi lists other subscribers that he is signing up in Switzerland and Germany. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 May 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | The inclusion of vocal models seems indispensible to Plamenac, as the historical value comes from the relationship between the keyboard adapations and the original pieces. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 22 May 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is undergoing an operation for an ulcer in France in the next week. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 May 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an update about organization of Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 4 June 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan tells Plamenac about ulcer surgery; "I have no objection to including [the] Faenza [Codex] in the series CMM. In fact, in view of the form it is to take I think that is the only thing to do." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 11 June 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi reports a four-blank-page error in one of the copies of vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition, which is a mistake by Willemsen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 19 June 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has sent the introduction to vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 23 June 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is delighted by vol. 1 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition, which he has received. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 23 June 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The English for the introduction to vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition is not great; review copies have been ordered to be sent, but Carapetyan warns Jacobi not to try to influence reviewers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 25 June 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends corrections for introduction to vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition on the basis of comments by Cuthbert Girdlestone. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 June 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The translation for vol. 2 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition is awkward. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 2 July 1967 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac sends best wishes after Carapetyan's surgery and will try to "drop in" on his way back to the States in October. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 4 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for review copies to be sent out. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 7 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for an author's price for Neuchâtel library, which has offered for an original copy of a book by Jean-Philippe Rameau to be at Jacobi's disposal. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends corrections for printing of titles and the layout. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi forwards a letter from André Malraux, the French Minister of Cultural Affairs. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 22 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending his translation of the introduction to Cuthbert Girdlestone for correction. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 July 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is dealing with bad translations. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 1 August 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "If the reader cannot deal with the main text, given in French, then what are we doing addressing the book to him?"; "there is indeed a problem in translations. I myself am embarrassed just now with the Foreword to a volume of [Cipriano de] Rore's Opera omnia"; "I have ordered review copies sent to MUSIC AND LETTERS and to MUSICAL QUARTERLY, as also to the RIV. ITAL. di MUSICOLOGICA. But judging by previous experience, the copy sent to the latter is likely to disappear in somebody's private library." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 5 August 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi defends English translations of French texts in his introductions for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 8 August 1967 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi defends English translations of French texts in his introductions for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 11 August 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | “I hope you are not falling into the position of poor Dr. [Ludwig] Finscher, who eagerly came to me for the [Loyset] Compère edition, got a good start, then fell into new duties and let Compère fall into oblivion. It is neither fair to the composer, nor to the publisher, nor yet to the public.” | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 12 August 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is not convinced that an oblong book is the correct format. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 August 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi responds to criticism from reviewers over English translations of German texts. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 20 August 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends the title page layout and contents for vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 21 August 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan enables Jacobi to send material directly to the printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 12 September 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Clytus Gottwald | “Your remark closing your last letter I find quite tactless – if not, under the circumstances, discourteous. I flatly reject it. Nobody has told you that we had stopped paying royalties. My circular letter of November, 1965 made allowance for the younger and especially European collaborators. (Incidentally it brough forth some noble sentiments on the part of most, as also some lower ones on the part of one or two: it was an interesting test of character.) The same letter pointed out more clearly the inconveniences and troubles caused by delinquent editors. It was an explanation and an appeal at the same time. In your contract it is written in – by yourself – that the last volume would be delivered in 1961/1962. Five years have passed beyond the date set down by yourself." | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Clytus Gottwald, Korrespondenz -1970 [Ordner 1a + 1b] - unbearbeitet | |
| 16 September 1967 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "It will take time before I regain my former stamina." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 22 September 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is sorry to hear of Plamenac's operation. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 29 September 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates on various volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 12 October 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi forwards letters sent to [the printer Jo.] Willemsen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 October 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Attacks of renal colic (a byproduct of the tablets containing alkaline that Carapetyan has used for years to treat his ulcer) have halted Carapetyan's work; he is unhappy with the oblong format proposed for vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 17 October 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Given Carapetyan's health, at present, Jacobi's letters to Willemsen are helpful. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 19 October 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is willing to accept Willemsen's layout proposal for vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 23 October 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | A college of Jacobi's, an editor of a large German publisher, was at the international book fair in Frankfurt and remarked that AIM would have been in the position to make considerable sales if present. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 October 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Reported by Oliver Strunk: "Though we failed to bring out a volume last year the [Jacques Arcadelt] edition, you will be interested to know, is getting on, in fact very well, I hope to bring out before the year-end two volumes. Four more are in the works. [Albert] Seay has done nobly. I wish all my collaborators were as diligent and as reliable as he." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 1255 | |
| 9 November 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi explains why introductions for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition are longer and are taking more time than initially anticipated. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 November 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan looking to sell property, and thereafter split his time between Spain and elsewhere; Carapetyan does not do book fairs: "The only time we exhibited books was at the meeting of the IMS in New York." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 14 November 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is pleased with the new layout for vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 21 November 1967 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Jan LaRue | Armen Carapetyan | LaRue has interest in establishing a musicological reference library in Italy as a joint venture with the American Academy in Rome; Carapetyan might deposit microfilms? | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1576 |
| 30 November 1967 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Oliver Strunk | Jan LaRue | From Carapetyan on Hans Tischler: "Had the AMS joined forces with me on this I should perhaps have found renewed courage and gone beyond the Iron Curtain (Leipzig) where one may still find (?) brave and expert engravers" | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 54, Folder 1576 |
| 3 December 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan had a duodenal ulcer for 35 years; "European costs are rapidly approaching those in America; but now we must see what the much talked of inflation in the US is to be." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 4 December 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has discovered that there is much more for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to cover than initially supposed in February 1963. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 12 December 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "I shall have a copy sent to [François] Lesure, as you wish. The least Lesure could do, incidentally, is to show some consideration toward what I do. He was an obscure student when I brought him to Florence and kept him at our villa where we had our second summer session, letting him enroll as a student, all expenses paid. There he met [Jacques] Handschin, [Yvonne] Rokseth, others who were on my staff, and a host of visiting musicologists. He was quick to make the best of his contacts. He is diligent, ambitious, a politician, not necessarily always loyal." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 December 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi received dummy of facsimile part of vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 December 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends part of an introduction and thanks Carapetyan for sending a review copy to Jack Westrup. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 December 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is interested to see if Jacobi's contacts can find a buyer for Carapetyan's house. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 21 December 1967 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is not a fan of the oblong format for vol. 3 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 December 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers a suggestion for how to advertise Carapetyan's house in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 29 December 1967 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an explanation for the slowness of the edition's completion. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 4 January 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates about several volumes for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 19 January 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for Carapetyan to raise prices of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; sends part of an introduction. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 January 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for review copies to be sent to Ludwig Finscher's reviewer Helmut Haack; asks Carapetyan to send review copies to the seven journals chosen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 6 February 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | The review copy had not been sent to "Rivista italiana di musicologica." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 February 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Some of Jacobi's subscribers must receive the 15% discount; he insists on seven review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 13 February 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "[Ludwig] Finscher: I know him – perhaps longer and better than you. He came to me when he was only a student. He used to come to me direct for review copies, but laden with a guilty conscience about his commitments to me, he now turns to my office in American or to authors. He is a good man, both humanly and musicologically." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 18 February 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends various notices about reviews; offers an update about the preparation of vols. 5 and 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 7 March 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan notices that Jacobi has been selling subscriptions at a discount in violation of contract. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 March 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan has taken on a sub-series called "Flemish Musicians in the Spanish Court." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 13 March 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi complains about a duplicate page number. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 16 March 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi attempts to negotiate with Carapetyan over discount with subscribers, asks about honorarium. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 20 March 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Jacobi will have to notify his subscribers that the discount will be discontinued for the rest of the series; no discount for Jacobi on any other series; Carapetyan did not agree to send out volumes for review; asks Jacobi to write fewer letters; Carapetyan's accountant is a English man living in Valencia. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 22 March 1968 | Secretary to Erwin Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi's secretarty sends a slip for vol. 1 corrections. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 March 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi regrets the possible misunderstanding. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 26 March 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "Insinuations that I might be incorrect in handling financial matters is not only humiliating but infuriating." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 March 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is selling his house but will not hear much until May or June 1968. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 1 April 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan surveyed the land at his house, which he is selling. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 5 April 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | There is an issue of sorting out subscribers that Jacobi had individually signed up. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 9 April 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends updates on the size of vol. 5; will prepare a list of subscribers that Jacobi signed up to give to the Dallas AIM office, asks that Carapetyan be flexible with procedures for payment with some of these subscribers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 16 April 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi forwards contacts from the Strasbourg University Library, which has been trying to acquire the edition at an author's price ("Being myself born in Strasbourg and of a Strasbourg family still well-known there, I feel to be in a rather awkward position to reply"). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 22 April 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is willing to offer a discount for Raymond Meylan, since he is "a young man with a wife and child and not affluent, and he seems to be an agreeable person. I am always sympathetic with serious and courteous young musicologists"; thanks Jacobi for his rational and courteous response to Carapetyan's recent criticism. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 30 April 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for a discount for a subscriber. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 30 April 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Carapetyan wants to change procedure for dealing with fifteen subscribers that Jacobi had signed up: vols. 3 and 4 will be sent directly from Dallas without an author's discount, and Jacobi sends the names and addresses for these subscribers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 7 May 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi had signed up fifteen subscribers and communicated directly to them; he offers various updates about volumes in progress. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 13 May 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi informs Carapetyan that Jacques Chailley will review the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition in the "Revue de Musicologie." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 14 May 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan thanks Jacobi for dealing with subscriptions. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 May 1968 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "But it has been no fun to carry on with 30-40 publications in the works at any given moment, to look after every detail by correspondence, especially with printers and engravers, not without constant urging and poking and demanding with some of my editors, etc., etc."; "Myron [Gilmore, director of Harvard University's Villa I Tatti] and I traveled together to and in Europe in 1934... Myron tells me that they have had a benefactor for music and they have added a wing for the music collection"; "I was about to establish a music center in Florence when the McCarran Act uprooted us." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 20 May 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi thanks Carapetyan for "the brilliant volume III." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 28 May 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends updates about vols. 4, 5, and 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 30 May 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "It is noble of [the printer Jo.] Willemsen to press with the thing. He knows my position…I had plenty of it before Willemsen came as director a few years ago, though it is now 20 years that I work with the firm. Willemsen has agreed to look after our editions (besides [Jean-Philippe] Rameau I have about ten other books with the Nijmegen printers in progress), even after he goes to Amsterdam on June 4th until they are completed." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 10 June 1968 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent free copy of Rameau edition to André Malraux with the idea that it would generate purchases on behalf of the French public libraries in his ministry; complete microfilm material for vol. 6 sent to [the printer Jo.] Willemsen; sent AIM in Dallas the names of two potential subscribers; cannot understand why Carapetyan will not raise the price for the entire set. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 12 June 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent the first part of the introduction for vol. 4; Chailley will review vols. 1–3, perhaps with vol. 4. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 14 June 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan received first part of introduction for vol. 4; "Cost of vol. 3 (printing bill) was just short of $5000. Income from copies sent out so far covers about half that sum." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 18 June 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent [the printer Jo.] Willemsen materials for vol. 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 28 June 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Reported by Oliver Strunk: "Vols. IV and V too have appeared [of the Jacques Arcadelt edition], and Vols. VIII and IX are going to press. So we have in print Vols. I, III, IV, V, VI, and soon will have VIII and IX. Vol. VII is being engraved. Vols. II and X I must yet receive from [Albert] Seay. Certainly he has done the job at a pace nobody managed in my experience." | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 1255 | |
| 3 July 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is correcting dummy for facsimiles in vols. 5 and 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 4 July 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Andres Briner, music editor at the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung," is interested in reviewing vols. 1–3 and is willing to pay 1/3 of the price for them. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 6 July 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "Mr. W[illemsen] himself wrote recently that he can and would like to bring out the rest of the edition this year IF Dr. Jacobi would co-operate with the introductions. Judging by the pace you have taken with the others, I see no hope; and I find it a great pity." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 July 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan's trip proved impossible, so he will be at house in Spain for now. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 20 July 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for Carapetyan to send review copies to the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung"; complains about aesthetic layout in vol. 3; gave an introduction card to one of his students, Hermann Danuser, who "is a very gifted and sympathetic student in musicology," and Danuser will be in Spain shortly working on codices of the fourteenth century. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 6 August 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a review of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition in "Die Musikforschung"; Meier decided to purchase land in Tuscany before he would have visited Carapetyan's property. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 15 August 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a portion of the introduction for vol. 4 to Carapetyan; proposes listing page numbers in MD advertisements for Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 19 August 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Vol. 4 is complete from Jacobi, and now the volume is with Prof. Cuthbert Girdlestone for assistance with the translation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 20 August 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends organizational material for vol. 4 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 26 August 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Reported by Oliver Strunk: "The Introductions to [Jacques] Arcadelt VIII and IX came rather late, as compared with the music, and the printer delayed the setting. I hope to see these volumes to press next month. I just sent the proof (music) of Volume VII to [Albert] Seay: a big volume; and Seay recently sent the Ms of Volume II, gone to the engraver. So there remains only Volume X. Not bad going!" | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 1255 | |
| 27 August 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The last congress that Carapetyan attended was the 1952 IMS in Utrecht; wanted to head to René Bernard Lenaerts's symposium on editing polyphony, but now cannot attend; a review of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition in a newspaper does not make sense. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 8 September 1968 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout raises the possibility of working with Carapetyan for the Alessandro Scarlatti opera edition. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 8 September 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes that his edition is beginning to be studied and quoted in professional circles. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 25 September 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests facsimiles for vols. 5 and 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 25 September 1968 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The printer Jo. Willemsen has to commute four hours daily between Nijmegen and Amsterdam until February 1969. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 30 September 1968 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The printer Jo. Willemsen not always a good collaborator; "Besides years of work together, I have tried to develop what, after all, is the most important: the human element… probably thanks to his clash at Nijmegen and his move to a new post, there have been a number of grievous errors... I have had to swallow and keep silent." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 15 October 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi encloses a review; he suggests reproducing an autograph letter as a facsimile. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 22 October 1968 | Altea la Vieja, Alicante Finca Santa Barbara (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "Besides limited secretarial help here in Spain, my own limited energies this year really bring about press of work." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) |
| 28 October 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "Foolishly, or unluckily, I took on big projects like the Flemish composers in the Spanish Court when I should not have"; Carapetyan tried a Polish firm, but the collaboration was unsuccessful; Carapetyan has 49 Publications currently in process, all directed by correspondence. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 10 November 1968 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout consults with Carapetyan about publishing issues with a volume of the Alessandro Scarlatti opera edition. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 5 December 1968 | C. Welti | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is away for a musicological conference abroad. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 25 December 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | The advice from Bärenreiter to Grout was not wrong: 500 copies may be sold, but over a long period only. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 29 December 1968 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers apologies about delays; corrections were needed. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 30 December 1968 | Armen Carapetyan | Oliver Strunk | Reported by Oliver Strunk: "As godfather to the edition of [Jacques] Arcadelt I report to you that Vols. VIII and IX, the chansons, came out some weeks ago (delayed some months because of the move from Nijmegen), and that the remaining vols.: II, VII, X are in various stages of preparation. I only need from [Albert] Seay the introductions to II and X. The year 1969 will see the edition completed - and that is a record by any standard! To think that I am still struggling with the editions of Gombert, Willaert, started 20 years ago, as also with others long overdue!" | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 1255 | |
| 2 January 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Heinrich Besseler | Carapetyan encloses a check for royalty payment. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 | |
| 17 January 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | It is too much trouble to own Spanish property; should something happen to Armen, Harriette could not maintain it. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 19 January 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has not yet received third proofs for vol. 4, third proofs of the facsimile part of vol. 6; Dresden interested in purchasing an edition, but has no foreign currency available (wants to exchange materials). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 20 January 1969 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Heinrich Besseler | Armen Carapetyan | Besseler likewise wishes Carapetyan happy New Year and thanks him for the royalty check. | Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, NA Besseler (Nachlass Heinrich Besseler) 15 |
| 3 February 1969 | Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is working with an engraver in The Hague. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 10 February 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers update for progress on vol. 5 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; sold edition to musicological institute of the University of Frankfurt; inquires about sending review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 12 February 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Jacobi has caused trouble by interfering directly with the printer; everything must be done through Carapetyan (Jo. Willemsen and his successor were baffled by the numerous changes); not interested in Jacobi's proposal to exchange publications with Dresden; Carapetyan has "32 items at Blikman & Sartorius alone, 10 items at Nijmegen still, others elsewhere." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 3 March 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is pleased to let Carapetyan handle correspondence with the printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 15 March 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "In 2 years 2 engravers got themselves killed or maimed by motor accident!" | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 18 March 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi again wants to work directly with the printer Jo. Willemsen on proofs. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 23 March 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Reviews will help competition against Broude Brothers edition; Jacobi wants to have vol. 5 out by his birthday in September. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 4 April 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | The translation for the introduction to vol. 5 is partially complete; Jacobi asks about an advertisement at a French cultural symposium. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 4 April 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes the discovery of a document for the facsimile part of vol. 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 13 April 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending partial introduction for vol. 5, despite acknowledging that it is contrary to Carapetyan's instructions; thinks Carapetyan will change his decision about starting work on the incomplete introduction after seeing the material. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 18 April 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "Finca Santa Bárbara has been sold (to a stinkingly rich German publisher at an absurdly low price)… Then there has been, and still is, the nightmare of preparation for a move. With our past vagrant life I have kept shedding papers, and even while settled here these seven years I have by habit kept decks fairly clear. Even so, the man who buys waste paper weighed the other day some 800 lbs., and more is still coming." Carapetyan is closing down Dallas and is transferring stock to Holland. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 24 April 1969 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout is dealing with Cornell University Press for the publication of Alessandro Scarlatti's "Griselda." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 28 April 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Finca Santa Bárbara was sold a few weeks ago; will go to Holland for some weeks, planning to close down Dallas office, which has been taken care of by his brother [Caro, presumably], and his brother's health is no longer good; wants to reduce blank space in the volumes for reasons of aesthetics and expense; reviews are not so useful. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 7 May 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sent the second part of the introduction for vol. 5. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 16 May 1969 | Finca de S. Bárbara, Altea la Vieja (Alicante) (Spain) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac has just mailed the Faenza Codex manuscript, save no. 23 (232 pages in total). | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 20 May 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi inquires about why vol. 4 has not appeared yet, and he asks about royalties. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 27 May 1969 | c/o Blikman & Sartorius, 520 Haarlemmerweg, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I really should like to retire, but that too is wishful"; he risks a loss of standards. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 3 June 1969 | c/o Blikman & Sartorius, 520 Haarlemmerweg, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "Long experience, and grief, has taught us not to start off with a Ms until it is absolutely complete." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 5 June 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "At all events it was a with a somewhat bitter amusement to read your complaint about delay, and about enquiries, when, having promised the edition for 1966, my office spends an appalling proportion of time in answering enquiries and protests, without speaking of my embarrassment, without mentioning the material side of the thing (perhaps you are unaware of the annual rise in costs in this country) while our price remains what we announced years ago, already wrong because of your changes in the amount of material to be set." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 31:4 (1) | |
| 9 June 1969 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is disappointed about the action taken with regard to the printing. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 9 June 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes that Carapetyan should raise prices for vols. 4–6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 13 June 1969 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout asks how Carapetyan is doing in Holland. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 22 June 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi returned proofs for the introduction of vol. 5 to the printer Jo. Willemsen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 27 June 1969 | c/o Blikman & Sartorius, 520 Haarlemmerweg, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Vol. 4 is being printed, vol. 5 is being prepared; Carapetyan cannot leave Amsterdam, as he has more than forty items in the works at present. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 5 July 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi needs to know about royalties for 1968; "I am convinced that the altar of culture deserves all personal sacrifices." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 20 July 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is spending a summer in Amsterdam to work with the printer; the workers are difficult to deal with. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 28 July 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "We are in a world where labor is irresponsible, imprudent, intractable; more specifically, we are in a country where the laborer is all but worshipped at the altar"; sales of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition are at a standstill; Carapetyan looking into having a more efficient stock circulation office; "The important problem is tax. I pay very heavy tax in the US; I cannot have Dutch taxes too. In August I may look into possibilities in Germany, where I already had an office, or in Switzerland, in which case I should have to consult a firm expert in commercial treaty between Switzerland and the U.S." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 1 August 1969 | 31 Ericaweg, Huizen (N.H.), Holland (The Netherlands) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for clarifications about his royalty statement. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 1 August 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests a possible Swiss lawyer for firm relocation; cannot understand the hold-up with vol. 5 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 5 August 1969 | 31 Ericaweg, Huizen (N.H.), Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The catalogue for September will include vol. 5 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 19 August 1969 | 31 Ericaweg, Huizen (N.H.), Holland (The Netherlands) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks further questions regarding sale price and royalty; thinks that with vol. 4 onwards more subscribers will materialize, since the texts have not appeared before. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 30 August 1969 | 31 Ericaweg, Huizen (N.H.), Holland (The Netherlands) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes errors on the correction slip for vol. 4; various complaints have been sent to both Carapetyan and the printer Jo. Willemsen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 |
| 31 August 1969 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | It comes as a shock that the printer Jo. Willemsen questions Armen Carapetyan's accounts; reminder that "net" income is not "gross" income and that Jacobi is entitled to nothing; summer was nothing but heartache with printers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 4 September 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi thanks Harriette Carapetyan for response; suggests a 10% increase in price for the last three volumes. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 5 September 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi questions the legibility of the facsimile of the letter. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 3 October 1969 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac explains the loss of the package ("lost after 'becoming separated' from the wrappings"). | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 15 October 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi reminds Carapetyan about issues from the previous two months that had not been addressed. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 11 November 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a review; asks about review copies; notes that he was recently in Vienna to do necessary research for vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 17 November 1969 | c/o Jaime Alvado Albalat, La Olla de Altea [Alicante] (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Two packets of post were lost, but eventually found. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 27 November 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi reminds Carapetyan about reviews. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 3 December 1969 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "After the disheartening experience I had with the loss of the package containing my Faenza [Codex] transcriptions, I have been busy reconsituting them and am still working on this tedious job which is not finished yet." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 11 December 1969 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a review of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition from "Die Musikforschung." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 13 December 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan needs editorial assistance; receives lots of applications from professors in the United States, but is no longer familiar with most academics there. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 16 December 1969 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | (This letter was not sent until 22 December 1969.) Jacobi is being difficult; Jean-Philippe Rameau edition not worth it; Carapetyan thinking about purchasing a villa outside Florence that is currently occupied by the Italian ambassador to London; Spain has law and order, but no culture, so it is difficult to run a business there. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 2 January 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plameanc is revising the set of xerox prints that were sent on 16 May 1969 (and were lost in the mail). | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 12 January 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Carapetyan is in error about a few aspects of vol. 4; new document to include in vol. 6; family member has villa outside Florence that they have considered renting before | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 22 January 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Some estates that they are considering in Italy are too isolated (e.g., no telephone) and Carapetyan worries that his wife will be lonely. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 5 February 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi provides information about his relatives' villa; updates about vols. 4–6 of the Rameau edition and their various problems; suggests places in Switzerland where Carapetyan could live. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 20 February 1970 | Punta de la Mona, La Herradura (Granada) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "It was not clear to me whether [Willi Apel] would be disappointed in not having [the] Faenza [Codex] in CEKM, or insist that it be there. He is now willing to leave the matter to me." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 6 March 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "Dr. [Willi] Apel, in his letter to me of January 6—of which I enclose a Xerox copy—showed full understanding of the reasons that make the publication of my Faenza [Codex] edition in CEKM impractical. He seemed neither sorry nor disappointed." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 10 March 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac forwards letter from 6 March 1970. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 18 March 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | The villa from Jacobi's family not available; issues with Jean-Philippe Rameau facsimile reproduction happened after the printer Jo. Willemsen left Nijmegen | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 24 March 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates about review copies and vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 26 March 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is unable to say whether they will be able to meet in Europe over the summer; asks for an address at which Plamenac can be reached. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 1 April 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac sends contact information for himself for the next two months. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 April 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac sends contact information for himself for the next two months. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 April 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan paid a heavy price for living in Spain; now is considering relocating to Switzerland; AIM has stopped printing in the United States, and it will now be done in Holland. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 30 April 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an update about review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 11 May 1970 | c/o Blikman & Sartorius, 520 Haarlemmerweg, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "But, really you are making too much of this delivery of your Ms. Of course I should be pleased to see you after so many years, and admittedly details can be discussed easily in person. But surely I am capable of putting through your edition." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 12 May 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers update about review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 18 May 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan informs Jacobi that he will be traveling to the US for a month; he has decided to move to Italy; dreadful errors are appearing in volumes; wants to publish vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition in 1970. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 21 May 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers updates about review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 32:6 | |
| 30 May 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan informs Grout that he will be traveling to the US and seeing a brother he hasn’t seen for 43 years; he is dealing with property in Tucson. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 16 June 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an update on progress on vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; subscribers have not yet received vol. 5. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 17 June 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac had to go to the hospital for an operation; he would be interested to meet Carapetyan in Italy. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 23 June 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi acknowledges payment of royalty; he provides update on progress on vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 26 June 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "We are to be in Scotland (St. Andrews) for our son's graduation, then on to Paris and down to Italy. I cannot give you an address other than the usual one in Rome." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 16 July 1970 | Park Hotel Marzocchi Villa Marciano I-53100 Siena (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi provides update about progress on vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; he discusses the Park Hotel in Siena, where Carapetyan is staying. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 23 July 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi received two-thirds of his English translation; the next volume will be around 600 pages. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 7 August 1970 | ` | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has finished the introduction; the printer Jo. Willemsen has been slow getting proofs to Jacobi. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 13 August 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan provides an update about progress on vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; he discusses the Park Hotel in Siena. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 20 August 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an update about progress on vol. 6 of the Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 31 August 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending the first part of the introduction for vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to Carapetyan; Jacobi reached out for Carapetyan to a number of businessmen about the Park Hotel in Siena. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 7 September 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan laments that the introduction is too expansive, making it more expensive to print; he discusses the Park Hotel in Siena. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 11 September 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi provides an update about progress on vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 15 September 1970 | C.P.515, San Silvestro, Rome (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is negotiating with Teufl over issue with management of Park Hotel in Siena. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 20 September 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan feels a sense of futility about MSD and MD; he should have stuck to CMM and CSM; he will now be living in a castle. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| September 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | The problem with the AMS collaboration is "not financial but of the flesh, if you like, and eventually of continuity." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 10 October 1970 | c/o Duca Filippo Corsini, Barberino Val d'Elsa, 50021 (Firenze) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I must warn you that progress will be slow. This man [the printer Jo. Willemsen] is overladen with work, while I am asking him to to relegate anything to subordinates." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 18 October 1970 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is unable to stay at Monteacuto after March 1971. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 21 October 1970 | c/o Duca Filippo Corsini, Barberino Val d'Elsa, 50021 (Firenze) (Italy) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac could not get in contact with Carapetyan over the summer; "I deplore the loss of time as much as you do, but it was certainly through no fault of my own since I was utterly unable to get in touch with you from May to the present time"; refers to the letter of 22 March 1964, in which Plamenac requests that plates reproducing the ten pages in Faenza that contain red notation be included in the volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 20 November 1970 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends part of the epilogue for vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 21 November 1970 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is returning engraved sample pages for Faenza Codex edition; more than eighteen staves per page is crowded; he asks Carapetyan to avoid cutting off bars. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 25 November 1970 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is disappointed that Jacobi is sending material in installments. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 27 November 1970 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac provides a detail about barlines for Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 16 December 1970 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan complains about the state of musicology, music education, and AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 10 January 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Choral parts will be done using the same engraving tools as the keyboard parts; Carapetyan packs the pages more than the average edition, sometimes by as much as 40% (does not want the criticism of "spreading out the material"); ten plates in color is possible, but Plamenac will need to provide color films and this cost cannot be passed on to the purchaser. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 10 January 1971 | Eileen Southern | Armen Carapetyan | Southern is upset over criticism by an unnamed scholar of her Escorial inventory. She notes that "my work has received commendations from such established Renaissance scholars as Reese, Kinkeldey, and Besseler." Southern notes that she was approached at the 1971 AMS annual meeting by Walter H. Kemp and suggests collaboration on the transcriptions of the Escorial mansucripts. | Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research, Eileen Southern Collection, Box 38, Folder 41 | |
| 12 January 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi apologizes for delays. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 27 January 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is annoyed about various decisions with regard to the Faenza Codex volume; the introduction has not yet been completed. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 March 1971 | Claude V. Palisca | Donald J. Grout | Palisca cannot pay for the stock that Carapetyan currently has, but instead needs to share the profits; he doesn’t want to make a Renaissance center at the American Academy in Rome (this was Strunk's idea). | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 8 March 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is living in a rented house, but is considering staying in a hotel. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 17 March 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks Carapetyan for his whereabouts over the summer; Plamenac will go to Europe in May. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 18 March 1971 | Oliver Strunk | Claude V. Palisca | Strunk suggests an AIM Renaissance center in Rome. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 14 April 1971 | Donald J. Grout | Claude V. Palisca | Grout anticipates that it will be an issue to get Carapetyan to agree to a governing board; Grout has been a close personal friend for over thirty years: "as you doubtless know, he is extremely sensitive." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 14 April 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "Three months have been full of interruptions, some of them unpleasant, as two car accidents after absolutely uneventful driving everywhere for over 40 years, and some of them pleasant, as a recent visit by Donal[d] Grout"; he cannot use small notes for ease of engraving. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 15 April 1971 | Donald J. Grout | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Grout asks how AMS and AIM should collaborate. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 21 April 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac tells Carapetyan not to send proofs to Urbana, as Plamenac will correct them in Europe; "I was very disappointed to learn that the vocal models are not going to be engraved with notes of smaller size than the Faenza [Codex] paraphrases." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 April 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan has been recently visited by Frank D'Accone; "years ago I had the starry-eyed desire of publishing polyphony in part-books and in old clefs." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 26 April 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan describes annoyance over delays and states that he will consider the index as long as it takes no time or effort on his part. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 28 April 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | The AMS cannot make immediate financial contributions, since the organization is $5000 or $6000 dollars net negative at present. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 21 May 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | It is not clear how AMS would make their offer, but Carapetyan open to negotiations. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 30 May 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers update about progress and thanks Carapetyan for willingness to accept proposition of index. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 1 June 1971 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | The Josquin des Prez conference at the Juilliard School in New York City will be a big success; Edward Lowinsky organized the whole thing and just wanted Grout to co-sign the checks. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 9 June 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is giving top priority to the Faenza Codex volume; "if workers' holidays will not interfere, we ought to have a first proof reasonably soon." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 10 June 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is not playing a game for tax advantages, but trying to determine feasibility; "Have a good time in New York, if that is possible. Frankly, I don’t think I am missing anything great. There will be a lot of boring papers, and no less poor performances. But for years I have been crying why not a Josquin [des Prez] festival, with all the foolery of festivals everywhere. I am glad it has come about." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 14 June 1971 | Donald and Margaret Grout | Armen Carapetyan | "Now for Josquin [des Prez] and a week in New York, to which I do not look forward with much anticipation of pleasure." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 16 June 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Claude V. Palisca | Armen Carapetyan | Palisca sends an offer letter from AMS board who wants to preserve the "American" in AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 25 June 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan now has the photos for the Faenza Codex. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 27 June 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is now traveling to Bologna from Rome, and asks that Carapetyan send the photographs to him in Bologna. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 12 July 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "Post is unpredictable, even maddening these days. Just today I have again been infuriated. A letter from Dallas has taken 13 days. It so happens that it contained some critical business to have been decided on earlier. It also comes too late for my reply that would bring my brother over next week. On the purely material side we just hear from Merrill Lynch by telephone from Rome, informing us that some documents sent from New York got there too late, meaning a considerable loss to me"; "the engraver is to be on holidays and I fear the 2nd proof will not be forthcoming soon." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 20 July 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | The printer is complaining about new changes to first proof, which apparently amounted to 80% of the corrections. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 July 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac notes issues with postal service (Plamenac is in Dubrovnik). | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 July 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I did receive a nice letter from Palisca with some ideas. I have not yet replied because he says he might send me another letter after consultation with the AMS lawyer during the Josquin [des Prez] days in N.Y." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 31 July 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | Everything was upset by the McCarren Act of 1952; "I like to think that the Institute has not been – as indeed it has not – a business enterprise." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 11 August 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac responds to various queries from Carapetyan for the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 16 August 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I think you still think in terms of years back. Printers are another race now." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 19 August 1971 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers an update about progress; Paul Henry Lang offered to write review for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition in "Musical Quarterly"; asks Carapetyan to raise prices for vol. 6. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 |
| 30 August 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | The plates could not be used; asks Plamenac to acquire the right films, the costs of which Carapetyan will cover. "We are going to press with 21 new editions this month and next." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 30 August 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Gerhard Croll | Carapetyan asks Croll if he is serious about publishing Gaspar van Weerbeke's music. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives | |
| 31 August 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I know the bother of replies by return post, bouncing back like a rubber ball. Among professionals, [Charles v]an den Borren and [Alfred] Einstein used to be like that"… "Then I get masterpieces like those from [Karel Philippus] Bernet Kempers: thank heavens not long ones. That poor man is simply allergic to any kind of order in preparing a Ms. All these years (by now 19 times) I have had to perforate an ulcer each time trying to get some sort of sense out of his typescripts (half scribbled over by hand) and have it retyped... last time I talked to [Bernet Kempers] by phone he sounded awfully old and feeble." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 10 September 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan needs to know where to send the second proof; he checked this and found that earlier corrections were inputted correctly. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 12 September 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers update on progress: he is finishing the acknowledgments and epilogue | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 12 September 1971 | Gerhard Croll | Armen Carapetyan | Croll will have time during Summer Semester 1972 to work on the Gaspar van Weerbeke edition. | Universität Salzburg, The Gaspar van Weerbeke Archives | |
| 13 September 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac insists that keyboard be left in the title, since it is vocal music transcribed for the keyboard. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 20 September 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes the discovery of important unknown letter by Jean-Philippe Rameau; notes omission of his name in advertisement in "Notes." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 24 September 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending all microfilms for facsimiles to the printer Jo. Willemsen. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 7 October 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac informs Carapetyan that the second proof has not yet been received from Paris. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 7 October 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Ernst Mohr | Carapetyan offers opinions on the report of the committee on "Acta Musicologica": "Prof. [George J.] Buelow's recommendation has contradictions, also some fancies"; "[François] Lesure's recommendation is typically practical and unimaginative"; Carapetyan then offers his own advice about the journal. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection | |
| 13 October 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is sending a photograph of a "puzzling" sign in the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 19 October 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan accidentally sent second proof by surface mail, rather than by airmail. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 22 October 1971 | Claude V. Palisca | Armen Carapetyan | In an exploratory letter, Palisca lays some of the possibilities: become a non-profit; AMS would take over the marketing; "it has been obvious that the copy editing is grossly inadequate in the AIM publications"; there is a need to have a critical apparatus. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 25 October 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan sends royalty statement for Bent's edition of the Old Hall Manuscript: 5% of total net sales of $8,912.85 = $445.64. | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 26 October 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi has paid 8,400 Swiss Francs for the translations. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 29 October 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac acknowledges receipt of the second proofs for the music. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 31 October 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks about 1970 royalty statement; apparently his other contracts pay 1/3 at the time of signature; 1/3 after completing the manuscript; 1/3 after the appearance of the book (this includes "Schriftbild der Musik 1600–1900" in the series "Musikgeschichte in Bildern" founded by Heinrich Besseler). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 31 October 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan has not committed to publishing the index; to raise prices mid-edition unnecessarily punishes the subscriber; asks not to be thanked in the acknowledgments. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| October 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi offers update on the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; renounces interest in a bibliography. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 3 November 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi notes that the last part of the manuscript will be sent to the printer. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 4 November 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac encloses second proofs of the music. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 8 November 1971 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan reminds Jacobi that he approached Carapetyan, not the reverse; Jacobi has complicated matters by interceding with the printer and causing confusion; Carapetyan rejects revaluing payments based on a devalued dollar. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 12 November 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "The colored photos have all this time been held up at the Dutch Customs." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 16 November 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is disapointed with delays and the lack of attention on the part of the printer. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 23 November 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is sorry to hear that the Carapetyans are not satisfied, but his "conscience is clean," and he completed the edition as fast and as well as he could. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 28 November 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks for a small insertion in the Faenza Codex volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 13 December 1971 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald and Margaret Grout | Carapetayn is considering Palisca's proposal for an AMS takeover of AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 21 December 1971 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi relays criticism from Kurt von Fischer that a substantial portion of the CEKM series led by Willi Apel is "completely bad and not in line with today's professional knowledge in the field of transcription technique of old keyboard music. Prof. Apel contin[ue]s to throw on the market more and more of these publications in such a fashion"; Jacobi feels misled about the quality of the CEKM series. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 27 December 1971 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "I am still without reply from you to my letter of November 16." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 3 January 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Alvin H. Johnson | Carapetyan notes receipt of payment from AMS. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 | |
| 10 January 1972 | Alvin H. Johnson | Armen Carapetyan | Johnson confirms that the AMS voted to give Carapetyan the payments. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 | |
| 12 January 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi encloses a copy of Paul Henry Lang's review, the last paragraphs of which Jacobi saw as critical of the edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 21 January 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "We are leaving for Holland in a few days to stay there 2-3 months & look after your & solve 3 dozen other editions." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 26 January 1972 | Hotel Park Marzocchi Siena (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | The printer may have gotten rid of the proofs, but if they exist, Carapetyan will send her them. "I am going to Holland in mid-winter (v. much contre coeur and against health) precisely because there is a pile of problems and trouble with some 40 items in the works." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 25 February 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi lacks information from the printer regarding the correction of proofs for vol. 6; desires a typographical sample of the index. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 27 February 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "I am really becoming upset: on the 21st of January you wrote that you were moving to Holland and that you would write me after your arrival there." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 28 February 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | Carapetyan has interest in seeing a draft proposal from AMS for takeover of AIM; willing to see a translation of the "Micrologus" and "De musica" by John of Afflighem. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 98 (Claude V. Palisca Papers), Box 23, Folder 413 | |
| 29 February 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac returns proofs and asks about the plates. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 March 1972 | Arubalaan 12a, Hilversum, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | The color films have been released from Customs; "I am working with one of the best, and most expensive, printers in Holland; yet there is a lot of trouble." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 6 March 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac sends a few corrections for the Faenza Codex volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 17 March 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Richard Sherr | "An edition of [Bertrandus] Vaqueras' is not presently planned for CMM, though once or twice someone or other has mentioned him." "CMM is perhaps by now too heavily committed, while on the other hand production becomes every year more difficult, but Vaqueras being a matter of one volume only, I should in principle be willing to undertake it, if your edition has Prof. [Lewis] Lockwood's approval." | Private, Richard Sherr | |
| 20 March 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I have asked for last proofs (at least of pages needing correction) of the music but have not yet received them." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 21 March 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Erwin Jacobi is "the greatest pest ever to come my way"; Claude Palisca is trying to draft a contract for the AMS to take over AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 12 April 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is hopeful about the prompt publication of the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 18 April 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac notes that he had missed introductory references in CMM 36; offers a text to be inserted. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 18 April 1972 | Margaret Bent | Armen Carapetyan | Bent returns second proofs, but corrections for [presumably, vol. 3 of the Old Hall Manuscript] were not appropriately handled after first proofs. | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 23 April 1972 | Claude V. Palisca | Armen Carapetyan | The letter from the AMS was mailed to Rome. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 98 (Claude V. Palisca Papers), Box 23, Folder 413 | |
| 24 April 1972 | Margaret Bent | Armen Carapetyan | Bent agrees to undertake the Albert Dunning translation; Carapetyan is ill in Holland, but proofs have been sent to Rome. | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 24 April 1972 | c/o Blikman & Sartorius, 520 Haarlemmerweg, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "Enlargements (full CMM page each) and double films (separating black from red) have once more been rejected." Carapetyan is staying near Hilversum in the Netherlands. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 28 April 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | The introduction is being printed; Carapetyan will provide an addendum, rather than a loose slip. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 May 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan has "had a long discussion with the director of the printing house about this volume"; sending along Latin texts for translation for Albert Dunning's edition of Pietro Giovanelli's "Novus thesaurus musicus" (CMM 64). | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 27 May 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi is working on proofs for vol. 6; has sold a copy of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 1 June 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends Jack Westrup's review of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition; he notes issues with proofs for vol. 6 and with misplaced pages in Westrup's copy. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 12 June 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan owes a letter to Claude Palisca regarding the collaboration; he needs to define the terms clearly. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 27 June 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan is annoyed with Jacobi's delays; he insists that customers directly work with AIM or their exclusive representatives (as in England). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 4 July 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi agrees to route customers through AIM's Dallas office; he is annoyed that the reviews in the United States complained about the English translation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 33:6 | |
| 22 July 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is suffering from health issues. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 6 August 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks about the status of the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 7 August 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Richard Sherr | "Yes, I have had word from Prof [Lewis] Lockwood. You may count on the publication of [Bertrandus] Vaqueras in CMM." | Private, Richard Sherr | |
| 15 August 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | The book is delayed, owing to the color plates (B&W would have been easier). | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 22 August 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is disappointed about the delays of the Faenza Codex volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 16 September 1972 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is in the United States; he has ordered the last films to be brought to him for inspection. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 20 September 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks about the status of the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 30 September 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi notes that it has been a year since he sent the last pages of his manuscript to Carapetyan; "I slowly feel myself in either a Kindergarten or in a madhouse."; Jacobi refers to the edition as his magnum opus. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 10 October 1972 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi wants Carapetyan to send him to Nijmegen to oversee the printing of vol. 6 of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 13 October 1972 | R. Bolderman | Erwin R. Jacobi | Bolderman does not understand the letter from Jacobi; he would like to resume printing for AIM. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 19 October 1972 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan refutes the implication that AIM is responsible for delays; Jacobi has been delinquent. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 3 November 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks about the status of the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 10 November 1972 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan has been setting up new office in Florence. "I am outraged that a supposedly first rate (and very expensive) printer is incapable of getting such things done in reasonable time. In fact these past four or five years all I have had has been [a] progressive breakdown of morale and its grevious consequences. Years ago, I left Italy and went to Holland for more reliable and superior work. Today I am back to Italy, planning to resume printing because the Dutch have become impossible. By the way, we are also setting up facilities for eventual circulation of all publications from here." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 13 November 1972 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan is setting up a new office in Florence and complains about the printer Blikman & Sartorius. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 17 November 1972 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I am also looking into the resumption of printing in Italy, which says something about what the Dutch have been putting me through." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 22 November 1972 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan is sending a third proof for vol. 3 of the Old Hall Manuscript. | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 26 November 1972 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Richard Sherr | "Rome having become too much for sense of company, too much also for ear drums and for lungs, we have not lived there for some time and no longer intend to do so. We are presently setting up an office here in Florence, though not necessarily planning permanent residence here, Florence too having gone the way of all cities. In fact all Italy, for those of us who have known her in better days, is depressing; but one has ties, one has business here, he must carry on"; "A viva voce discussion of an edition in preparation is always useful, but I see no compelling reason for a meeting just for [Bertrandus] Vaqueras. But of course I should be pleased to meet you personally, and I shall inform you if I am to be in Rome"; "As for a contract, we have a regular printed form and you may have it. Only that one article, touching royalty must be modified. We continue paying royalty to all past agreements, but lately we have had to suspend (not necessarily cancel) royalty to new comers, with exceptions in the cases of young musicologists, especially Europeans, not well employed and remunerated. These publications have always been onerous. They are now becoming crushing in both difficulty and cost in production"; "by the way, you may be interested to know that there have been at least two other offers of Vaqueras this year, the latest from Dr. Clement A. Miller of Cleveland. It is curious how an author will remain buried for centuries then suddenly a number of people will turn to him." | Private, Richard Sherr |
| 5 December 1972 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is "appalled at the inefficiency and bad faith of the Amsterdam printers." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 1972 | Harriette Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan has arrived in Holland. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 12 January 1973 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks about the status of the Faenza Codex edition. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 15 January 1973 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "I am choking with indignation, resentment, even rage. It is not only CMM 57 being treated this way, but an array of publications in all series… It is once more the human condition. Here is a man, very much middle class work people in background. He was diligent and conscientious when in Nijmegen. Now become a big-city fellow he has gone down morally. He has thought himself privileged to indulge in illicit romance when married and with children." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 19 January 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "There is also the trying situation in Holland. I must change printer, but this isn't a simple matter. Before breaking off, about three dozen items there must be completed, and tens of thousands books (the last inventory shows about 53,000 volumes) kept by those printers must be taken away." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 25 January 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi complains about various printing issues. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 26 January 1973 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac reminds Carapetyan about the addendum. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 6 February 1973 | Margaret Bent | Armen Carapetyan | Bent asks if Carapetyan would consider publishing Bent's essay "Musica recta and musica ficta" in MD 1972 or 1973; the article currently runs to 10,000 words. | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 12 February 1973 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Carapetyan has received approval copy for CMM 57, which looks good. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 21 February 1973 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is pleased that the approval copy looks good and reminds Carapetyan about the addendum. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 28 February 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends a review from the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 1 March 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | "The errors in the music are another matter, and regrettable. You failed to make these corrections on the proofs, though I asked (as I do in all cases) for a final correction, warning that the next appearance of the music would be from blocks. I fear we shall again lose some months because of these new corrections. I have ordered that they be made, but only if quickly; otherwise notes must be added in pertinent places, for which I have already supplied texts." | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 9 March 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for balance of royalties; asks about the future price of edition; asks why institutions have been delayed receiving copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 23 March 1973 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac asks "what is holding up the appearance of the Faenza [Codex] volume." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 26 March 1973 | Charles Hamm | Armen Carapetyan | Hamm raises the possibility of collaboration. With the apparent urgency in Carapetyan's position, Hamm is willing to visit Carapetyan in Florence/Rome (Carapetyan is worried about his health, it seems) [Hamm subsequently went to Florence to talk with Carapetyan for three days] | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 | |
| 27 March 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | Lots of changes in the proofs caused the delay with Plamenac's volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 28 March 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for balance of royalties; asks about the future price of edition; asks why institutions have been delayed receiving copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 18 April 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for the current price for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 26 April 1973 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan asks about a sent royalty check that has not been cashed or returned. | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 7 May 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi inquires about review copies not having been sent to the reviewers. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 9 May 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi notes that the editor of "Rivista Italiana di Musicologia" had not received a review copy. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 9 May 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi had requested directly that the printer Jo. Willemsen send the seven review copies, and Willemsen had acknowledged that he had sent them in February 1973; however, the review editors had not received these. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 11 May 1973 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan acknowledges receipt of letters; he will respond later. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 19 May 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for assistance getting review copies of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to journals. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 19 May 1973 | Castello Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout asks about combining RISM and Census Catalogue efforts. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 22 May 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi sends copy of review by Jack Westrup of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition (which is the only periodical so far to receive review copies of the edition). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 20 June 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks Carapetyan to send vol. VI to all the reviewers so that the reviews will appear (most will not review until the set is complete). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 22 June 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | The review editor at the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" has received all volumes. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 6 July 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Hamm did not want a joint publication of Census Catalogue with RISM; Palisca said the board was unanimous in wanting an AIM-AMS merger, but that was not true; someone on the AMS board believed that Carapetyan was trying to avoid taxes. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 10 July 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi inquires about royalties and whether reviewers have received review copies. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 28 July 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Jacobi is sending unnecessary letters; "You are entitled to no royalty, except by concession from our part." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 2 August 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | "I hope, and in fact it is my conviction, that in the future you will enjoy more satisfaction from my [Jean-Philippe] RAMEAU edition than you did in the past. I am, besides, convinced also that the forthcoming reviews will have a decisive influence on the future distribution of this edition." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 9 August 1973 | Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "[Charles] Hamm writes to me that he is to be in Utrecht for the new Josquin [des Prez] edition. There you are: much ado about, admitted much, in this case. But still: committees, discussions, time and money spent. Josquin is great. [Heinrich] Isaac is not much less great. Started only nine months ago, we shall go to press with 3 volumes of the Isaac edition in a few weeks. No committees, no meetings, no haggling; just hard work, with the mouth shut, and hard drain on nerve and on purse." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 20 August 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi sends copies of reviews. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 1 November 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Collective Editors | Costs of production have tripled in a three years; inflation has been staggering; dollar has been devalued; asks to suspend royalty, which will not balance accounts but will help. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 14 November 1973 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Oliver Strunk came to visit. Beginning 2 January 1974, Hänssler Verlag will handle all our books in all countries. This means of course a commission. This, together with the fantastic inflation and the dollar's loss of value compel me to suspend all royalty." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 15 November 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi asks about his 1972 royalty statement. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 19 November 1973 | Charles Hamm | Armen Carapetyan | In compliance with Carapetyan's letter, Hamm informed the board that negotiations for collaboration between the AMS and AIM have been broken off. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 | |
| 12 December 1973 | Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | encloses letter to all authors and editors; asks for Bent to undertake the translation from German for the new Cipriano de Rore volume; notes that "Bernhard Meier's style has in the past been often dense, but here it is considerably lightened. He is, as are so many others, somewhat prolix. If you undertake to translate this introduction do not hesitate to condense certain sentences." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 18 December 1973 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Royalties are less than the costs he has incurred for the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. He needs to support his family; he describes his past as a Holocaust survivor. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 20 January 1974 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is ill with shingles. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 30 January 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | "Sometimes I have the impression that you, from the throne of your mighty position as Director and General Editor of one of the largest publishing houses in the field treat me, your completely dependent and powerless author, as one treats a dirty dog who is a nuisance to everybody." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 4 February 1974 | Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan is ill, encloses letter, and thanks Bent for the Christmas greetings. | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 11 February 1974 | Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Bent has not responded to Carapetyan's letter from 12 December 1973, possibly due to move; Carapetyan resends the letter. | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 26 February 1974 | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "You are mocking me again. The mention in my circular of 'special arrangement' meant just that, specifically gone into with certain collaborators because of special circumstances... I have during the past year made myself clear to you. I consider myself totally free of any obligation to you, but certainly grossly, even cruelly, abused by you." "The production costs of 1973... were crushing. I am facing tax time – more than crushing." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 1 March 1974 | Jo. C. Williamson | Armen Carapetyan | The legal representation for Dragan Plamenac objects to the suspension of royalty. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 9 March 1974 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "My circular letter… 'proposed' a 'suspension' of royalty." Plamenac signed a contract in 1964 and then did not complete the work on time; Ludwig Finscher wrote to Carapetyan that "I shall never forget that you offered me publication of my doctoral dissertation when no publisher in Germany dreamt of risking the involvement with an unknown young scholar..." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 11 March 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi insists on payments for 1972 and 1973, despite the circular; he is willing to delay payments, but will not renounce them. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 31 March 1974 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac is upset about nullification of contracts; argues that Carapetyan was not truthful about the fifteen free copies; Carapetyan had agreed to pay for films, but now wanted to deduct the costs from Plamenac's royalties. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 1 April 1974 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan lost a lot of money selling old Spain property (for $75,000, would be worth $300,000 now); "I have had to send out a circular letter on royalty, explaining today's situation and proposing suspension… The response has been wonderful, heartwarming. But two have been another matter," except Jacobi and Plamenac, who has involved his lawyer. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 4 April 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi's legal advisor mentioned that one side cannot cancel a contract without consent of the other and is happy to hand it off to his legal advisor. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 17 April 1974 | Armen Carapetyan | Dragan Plamenac | "The scores of collaborators who have almost unanimously been sympathetic, generous and grateful in response to my circular letters must, in the face of your spirit and your behavior, be wildly abnormal… Why should you have said a word of appreciation for my thankless toil in producting your edition..."; "I deplore the day you called on me, uninvited, at the Torre di Bellosguardo."; "The series CMM has some 150 subscriptions. After this initial distribution it takes years to diminish the printed stock of these 500-copy editions. After 28 years we have exhausted only two or three items." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 20 April 1974 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Among those who responded positively to the circular were Albert Seay, Richard Hoppin, and Carol MacClintock; Carapetyan had not planned on the author engaging in business himself, which takes away from business by AIM. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 25 April 1974 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "Enclosed is your check; I do not accept money enclosed in letters such as the one that I just received from you. I deeply deplore having ever consented to enter into business relations with you. I do not expect, nor do I wish, any further correspondence." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 |
| 29 April 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi raises issues with author's copies and insists that the contract is still valid. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 24 May 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi is annoyed that Hänssler does not want to grant a 15% price reduction on future volumes of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 17 June 1974 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan had turned to the editors with a request of "mutual sacrifice"; Carapetyan considers the contract broken; at one point, Carapetyan sold his library to support AIM. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 3 July 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi is sending a complete edition of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to Dresden. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 5 August 1974 | Monteacuto, 50010 Candeli (Florence) (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "When you pay for a modest volume (CSM) sums like $16000, as was the case recently (for only 500 copies and paper supplied by me); when what used to cost for engraving alone about two to three thousand and now comes to $8520 (just now the latest [Cipriano de] Rore volume), to finish around $15,000, if lucky, by the time it is printed with the introduction, and when at the same time the stock market... will do as it has done, matters do indeed change shape." Germany seems better than America for a landing place for his business. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 12 August 1974 | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi has not received a response from Carapetyan for his letter from 3 July. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 27 August 1974 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | "I have no quarrel with you for wishing your royalty, since I had been, and was, unrealistic enough to offer it. Times have changed and all that is finished. From now on, not only is there to be no royalty, but every considerable project must have some subsidy. Well, at least in the case of [the Old Hall Manuscript] there was something – a rare case then. On the other hand, I don't mind telling you that OH has been one of the most onerous editions in CMM, especially volume III. The matter was made worse by the great delays, part of which by the inescapable fact of two editors separated by the Atlantic"; "By the way, there was never the faintest idea of handing over the AIM to Bärenreiter (God help us!), or for that matter to the AMS. The AMS approached me some years ago for some sort of connection between itself and the AIM. We lost much time in correspondence, which did not surprise me, since I had been quite skeptical but responded out of courtesy. For your information, there is active interest on the part of a good many Amercian musicologists to assure continuity in which I have endeavored to accomplish. It remains to be seen what, if anything, will come out of it all. Clearly, nothing can be expected of a vast national society as the AMS." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 21 October 1974 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Jacobi had his lawyer send a letter to Hänssler Verlag. Jacobi had promised the edition would be complete in 1967, not 1973; the last volume alone cost half of the original budget. Printers thought Jacobi was crazy; article XI stipulates that litigation can only be affected in the State of Texas, so Carapetyan wonders, why threaten Hänssler? "You and [Dragan] Plamenac make a pair, embittering my experience of 29 years in this noble undertaking." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 15 November 1974 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "My costs of book production are by now higher in Europe than they would probably be in America, but at this hour of day I don't feel I can or want to make a change." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 24 December 1974 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi had his Zürich lawyer send a letter to Hänssler Verlag; "I do not want my wife [to] inherit an unpleasant situation. We have none other. Yours is the only unpleasantness on the scene, thanks to your extraordinary character." "One other exception was [Dragan] Plamenac who has been set aside by a deserved reprimand and by an advance payment in riddance that will never be earned by his edition." Subscriptions have reached saturation. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 8 January 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyan was unimpressed by a letter from Jacobi's lawyer (Mr. Ballin); "I am not changing my attitude"; "The Institute is clear of America"; "Do not waste time sending me reproductions of reviews. First: I receive the publications from which you reproduce the reviews. Second: Those reviews do not interest me." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 15 January 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Armen Carapetyan | Jacobi ordered a copy of the Jean-Philippe Rameau edition to be sent to Dresden; when he did not pay, Hänssler Verlag decided to handle the affair through his lawyers in Germany and Zürich; Hug & Co. wanted to publish the Armen Carapetyan circular, but Jacobi did not give them the letter; Jacobi sold his music library (rare items) to the university library; as a "free lancer" he had to live on the basis of his modest income (no pension). | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 16 January 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi suggests new accounting practices for AIM. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 22 January 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | "You are the only editor to whom we are now sending royalties. Others were quite willing to be helpful in these difficult times and showed a heart warming sympathy and understanding"; Jacobi blamed the Carapetyans for delays, when in fact, it was Jacobi himself who was responsible. "Hänssler Verlag is our distributor, not the keeper of our contracts. Your sending a xerox copy of yours and our very personal document was, in fact, one of the most extraordinary and distasteful procedures my husband has met in his long career." For volumes, Carapetyan tells Jacobi to talk to Hänssler Verlag. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 25 January 1975 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I am still struggling with piled-up work." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 4 February 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | "I simply am unable [t]o understand why Hänssler Verlag cannot in the future prepare the annual statement for you and send me 10% of your net income?" Jacobi is annoyed that AIM is not interested in having him do exchanges with East Germany. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 21 February 1975 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac wants to make sure the addendum has been inserted. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 9 April 1975 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | "Instead of a flood of invectives I expected a simple explanation of the fact that the completion of the volume is still held up after all problems regarding plates etc. had seemingly been solved… I was entitled to receive something else than a rude answer to an inquiry prompted by the interminable delay." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 2 May 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi questions AIM's accounting practices. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 3 June 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan explains AIM's accounting practices; notes that "Hänssler Verlag acts only as our distributer, not as our representative in any other way. They have, at any event, flatly stated that they will not be involved in any royalty statement for the publications they distribute." | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 9 June 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Harriette Carapetyan asks if Bent has received all of the volumes she ordered. | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 26 June 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan explains how accounting for sales during the last quarter of 1974 are treated as 1975 income. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 14 July 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky asks to use three madrigals published by CMM for his article on Italian mannerism; proposes visiting Carapetyan in September 1975. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 18 July 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi acknowledges receipt of royalty; annoyed that Hänssler Verlag wants payment before books in CEKM edition are sent. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 26 July 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan agrees to a visit; Lowinsky is welcome to use passages; "reminds me of [Leo] Schrade's long article many years ago, which I failed to understand, and asking [Alfred] Einstein about it got a confession that he too, as editor, had not understood it!" | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 30 July 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | “I had the same experience with [Leo] Schrade’s long article of the 1930[s], and [Alfred] Einstein told me too that he had not understood it. The way I remember him telling the story, Schrade submitted the article to him while he was still editor of the "Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft" and Einstein rejected the article precisely because he couldn’t make head or tail of it. Einstein of course lost his editorship as the Nazis came to power, and Schrade’s piece was eventually published in 1935, if memory serves, under a new editor.” | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 14 August 1975 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | The Faenza Codex volume is dated 1972; "I can think of no reason why its appearance should be interminably delayed." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 9 September 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is delighted that Carapetyan accepted the Johannes Lupi collected-works edition; "It seems hardly believable that an artist of such great talent should be so little known. Yet, [Nicolas] Gombert and [Giovanni Pierluigi da] Palestrina thought highly enough of him to build a Mass on one of his chansons." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 9 September 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky thanks Carapetyan for hosting him for dinner [note: there are two versions of this letter]. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 11 October 1975 | Dragan Plamenac | Armen Carapetyan | Plamenac thanks Carapetyan for sending free copies of the Faenza Codex volume to their intended address. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 45 (Dragan Plamenac Papers), Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| 22 October 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | "Before we get involved with the AMS, I may be able to make some arrangement for the survival and continuation of the AIM on this side." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 26 October 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | "I called off another negotiation with the AMS." "As it happened we were scheduled to be in Germany those days, and it was not unnatural to discuss the situation with [Friedrich] Hänssler. Not that he jumped at it. He is a steady, cautious man. But it is true that at first he did not quite grasp what a good thing it could be (just as the AMS did not two years ago). Gradually light was cast on the situation from the point of view of both sides (I myself not quite grasping the enormity of the new situation)." "I think that an easier, smoother transition, and in the long run safer progress is more likely with Hänssler [Verlag] than with the AMS. Ostensibly, by the way, nothing will change, as far as the broad public is concerned. I should still be the director and still (alas!) have the full load of the work. At this moment there are 47 items in the works. Later it is more likely that the bother - ever increasing bother - of book production be alleviated by Hännsler than the AMS, Hänssler being a publisher himself. Gradually, I would hope to be relieved of editorial work. I am not immortal. On the other hand, several American musicologists have repeatedly offered to take on duties. The name too will remain. In fact, as far as the public is concerned, the AIM will be in Italy, if we continue living in this impossible place, and in Germany; and that is the way it is now. Another question whether the public should know the noble treatment I get from the Government after 30 years of toil and sacrifice." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 26 November 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | "I should like to retire, given the present circumstances, including the problem with the IRS. I am glad of and thankful for your closing words of understanding. And again I want to say my thanks for your personal part in the entire history of discussion on an AMS-AIM connection." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 26 November 1975 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | The Carapetyans visited Armenia. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 5 January 1976 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I assume that you know that the IRS suddenly put us on inventory basis after letting us accumulate an enormous stock all these 29 years. The result is simply and plainly devastating… I think all we may manage is a slight decrease in the additional tax (nearly $50000) for 1974... 1975 will be still another blow"; "I am transferring the stock, probably as a one-dollar sale. I am not transferring the 47 items right now on my cards - publications in the works just now." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 18 January 1976 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout acknowledges the "problem-bombshell" from IRS; AMS is showing "fatty degeneration of the brain." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 6 February 1976 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I have simply transferred at a mere nominal value the stock [of AIM] to Hänssler [Verlag] just to be rid of it, since what was a big help in getting out new things has now become a terrible liability. The ironic, this crazy world. For the rest all will go on as before, alas, with all the editorial work on my shoulders and all the headache of looking after production. But eventually there may be an easier transition, at least on the production end... it makes me feel comfortable to know that you agree that the AMS would not carry on apace and at expected quality even." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 22 March 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | James Haar | AIM is not being taken over by Hänssler Verlag: since 1 January 1974, they have been the sole distributer of the publications. Now, the relationship has developed into closer collaboration with the firm, so that the AIM will survive when Carapetyan is no longer living. Carapetyan has never asked for financial support from the AMS. Carapetyan felt that the Jacques Arcadelt subsidy had been poorly referred to by the AMS. Carapetyan offers the impression that Haar was sore about AIM selling to Hänssler and not AMS. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 1 April 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | James Haar | Armen Carapetyan | Haar disputes Carapetyan's impression of his motives. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 18 May 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | James Haar | "As for a partnership between AMS and AIM, let us face it: Was it not highly doubtful that the work would go apace? This was nobody's fault, but simply by the nature of things. A great deal of time, strong heart and personal dedication would have been needed. Unless the AMS found two or three people and engaged them properly, the wheels would grind to a stop." | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 105, Folder 3017 |
| 1 June 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi asks for the Carapetyans to write to Hänssler Verlag about his royalty payments. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 10 June 1976 | Harriette Carapetyan | Erwin R. Jacobi | Carapetyans have written to Hänssler Verlag about the royalty, and Hänssler will handle the statement. Carapetyan instructs Jacobi to contact Hänssler about any further questions regarding royalty. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 | |
| 16 June 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Erwin R. Jacobi | Harriette Carapetyan | Jacobi questions AIM's accounting practices. | Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nachlass Erwin R. Jacobi (Mus NL 150), Aab 34:11 |
| 15 August 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | "I am trying to clear my file before a business trip to Germany. So this is only a sign of life. The trip is chiefly for starting off new printers. The Amsterdam firm has exhausted even my store of patience. But it still has some 25 items to complete. To Germany I will go with a ton of [manuscripts]." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 23 August 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout will be traveling. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 28 September 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn's estimate for the delivery of the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition was overly optimistic: "during the last winter and spring my husband and I were devoting much of our time to two sets of page proofs and the index for the Proceedings of the International Josquin [des Prez] Festival-Conference. That is out of our hands now." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 8 October 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Gustave Reese | "[Catherine] Brooks signed a contract in 1951: During 25 years I have shown, it would seem to anyone patience and understanding. But if even now she comes forth with uncertainty, offering, finally to send the edition in a state, especially as regard the texts, about which I cannot feel safe, nor even understand what is meant, I must not be blamed for refusing to go on", "I was in Germany two weeks ago and Hänssler [Verlag] showed me a letter from Miss Brooks. I was sad to find that she permitted herself, after informing that she had just retired from her 'University' duties, to imply that I was simply letting her down 'after a long standing contract'" | New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, JPB 92-71 (Gustave Reese papers), Series 1, Folder 194 |
| 16 October 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Donald J. Grout | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Grout offers greetings after his travels. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 9 November 1976 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | The transfer from the Netherlands to Germany has been challenging; Carapetyan sends this letter as confirmation that he has accepted the Johannes Lupi edition. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 11 April 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn explains that delays reflect the difficulty of acquiring a microfilm of a Johannes Lupi motet from Brussels 27088. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 2 May 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan is delighted to meet Blackburn and Lowinsky for dinner in Florence; the engraving for the Johannes Lupi edition will be done "in the classical manner: on metal plates." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 8 May 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan sends his phone number. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 17 May 1977 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn sets up dinner with the Carapetyans in Florence. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 20 May 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan thanks Lowinsky and Bonnie Blackburn for their trip to visit him. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 5 June 1977 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | "We cherish the memory of our Florentine weekend, and particularly the evening we spent with the two of you. My husband [Edward Lowinsky] declares that you are one of the most fascinating raconteurs he has ever encountered." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 8 June 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Eileen Southern | Carapetyan acknowledges receipt of Southern's texts for Escorial IV.a.24 and raises a few questions. He warns Southern "not to expect proofs in short order. We are very heavily laden in the seven series, presently some four dozen items in the works." | Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research, Eileen Southern Collection, Box 38, Folder 41 |
| 20 June 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Eileen Southern | Armen Carapetyan | Southern remarks that "Escorial became for me a kind of ivory tower to which I could retreat from the stormy academic world... I have been able to bring a great deal to my classes in Renaissance music at Harvard because of my work with Escorial." | Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research, Eileen Southern Collection, Box 38, Folder 41 |
| 1 July 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky checked with his doctor about Carapetyan's ailment (it appears to be shingles). | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 14 July 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Walter Pass at the University of Vienna wants to edit the Trent codices; Carapetyan is working on a sample page of the Johannes Lupi edition. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 26 July 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn's longer introduction is taken in the style of Leeman Perkins's CMM edition for Jean Lhéritier | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 27 July 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "For the Josquin [des Prez] enthusiasts the availability of Heinrich Isaac, [Jean] Mouton, Loyset Compère, Alexander Agricola, Brumel, Gaspar van Weerbecke, and others in invaluable. Only against the background of their music can his achievement be placed in historical perspective and can the individuality of his work be appreciated." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 6 August 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "Yes, there have been book-length Introductions as Perkins', which I had 'pruned', but by a strange circumstance, too long to tell, the revised version got exchanged with the original version." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 6 August 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | The transfer of duties to Hänssler Verlag requires a division of labor, and Hänssler would have to take charge of production post-proofs. Each series needs a general editor. The main challenge (to be assumed by Frank D'Accone) is editing CMM. Gilbert Reaney will edit CSM; Charles Hamm, RMS; CEKM had Willi Apel, who is now now retired; MISC is closed, and Carapetyan would like to close MD. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 6 August 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | Carapetyan is considering moving to the Southwest United States for better weather. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 19 August 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky sends postscript about which "Hamlet" Lowinsky was referencing. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 23 August 1977 | Harriette Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky and Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan objects to the end of summer. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 24 September 1977 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn enthusiastically approves of Carapetyan's sample page for the Johannes Lupi edition. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 28 September 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky asks for help bringing out Laurence Feininger's enormous literary estate, for which Ludwig Finscher also had interest. Of the successors for the various series that Carapetyan mentions, "none of them has the caliber of the man they are supposed to succeed... [Frank] D'Accone, industrious and intelligent, lacks your vision. My good friend Charles Hamm, a marvelously sweet person, is neither exact nor exacting enough, as you will see in the criticism that I had to direct to his address toward the end of my AMS article and in a lengthy footnote in the Feininger article. [Gilbert] Reaney will do a competent job in editing the CSM series. I should be sincerely sorry if MD were to be terminated." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 17 November 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "Now we are leaving the printers in Holland who have become too slow, too exorbitant, and too slovenly, losing manuscripts or parts of them and causing all sorts of trouble… Your manuscript and a number of others have gone to new printers in Germany. They must be tamed and trained"; "Places considered [for living]: South Africa, despite the doghoused moment of the country; even New Zealand to "duck" part of the winter; Arizona, which we know well; Eilat, Israel"; "Today's mail includes 7 (seven) packets of proofs and [manuscripts]...." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 17 November 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan thinks that [Joseph] Kerman's criticism is decidedly one-sided; "Josquin [des Prez] completely captivated me very early in my experience in musicology… this too was shelved… as far as I am concerned, Josquin had a tiny and insignificant outlet through a few talks during the first summer session I organized at the American Academy in Rome, 1947"; "I met Feininger late in 1946... when I presented myself at the Vatican library for permit to work there... it was a fateful, almost fatal, meeting; for out of it came also meeting [Guillaume] de Van, which led to untold troubles, very costly in every sense. I was too innocent then, while the human condition as what it always has been and will be... [Laurence] Feininger had those days a good deal to do with de Van, but he escaped entanglement with that evil genius, and a genius he was."; "Your closing comment on [Costanzo] Festa on preference of 'one's own opinion to another man's evidence' reminds me of [Alfred] Einstein's comment to me (put rather vehently [sic.] for him) upon reading something of [Leo] Schrade's (I think his piece on Bach in a celebration volume to [Albert] Schweitzer?): 'Schrade is a man who prefers his own opinions to historical facts.'" | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 29 December 1977 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "Now that the Josquin [des Prez] proceedings are finally out, I am working on the handbook of the records of the four concerts of Josquin's works that presented the festival part of the occasion, and Oxford University press is breathing down my neck." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 2 January 1978 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is disappointed that the engraving of the Johannes Lupi editon has been postponed; she asks if Carapetyan has ever worked with English printers (Blackburn and Edward Lowinsky have had good experiences). | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 1 February 1978 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan is traveling in the Mediterranean. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 21 March 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan will begin transferring CMM to Frank D'Accone during this year; he viewed D'Accone as the best among his options. Although Carapetyan wanted to see the Johannes Lupi edition completed, it was coming at an inopportune time. Peter Thalheimer is in charge of AIM publications. Carapetyan is considering a move to the drier climates of either Spain or Arizona. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 4 April 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Eileen Southern | Armen Carapetyan | Southern inquires about her mansucript of Escorial IV.a.24 and asks about a discount in purchasing items from AIM. | Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research, Eileen Southern Collection, Box 38, Folder 41 |
| 12 April 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is thinking of moving to Spain or the southwest United States. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 24 April 1978 | Donald J. Grout | Armen Carapetyan | Grout is working on a third edition of "A History of Western Music." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 27 April 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Hellmut Federhofer | Armen Carapetyan | A wonderful article by Mary Beth Winn Marvin came to "Acta Musicologica," but Ludwig Finscher does not want small contributions any longer; with permission of the author, he sends the article to MD. | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 22 June 1978 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | The proofs for the first volume of the Johannes Lupi collected-works edition have been returned with five hundred corrections (mostly "errors of omission... rather than of comission"). | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 22 June 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky is a big fan of Murray Bradshaw's "The History of the Falsobordone"; Lowinsky recognizes that "our personal contact has come late in life." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 19 July 1978 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Hellmut Federhofer | "The article by Mary Beth Winn Marvin is not a world-shaking matter, but it is a small emendation to the edition in CMM of Compere's complete works." Carapetyan accepted the article. He has never met Federhofer. "My mode of life is paradoxical: too many moves, yet static once we settle in a new residence. Even now we are again to change residence, though we were beautifully settled outside Florence." | Universität Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Hellmut Federhofer-Acta Musicologica Collection, C |
| 14 February 1979 | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret and Donald Grout | Carapetyan is leaving for Spain for the winter. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 15 February 1979 | Armen Carapetyan | Donald J. Grout | Carapetyan is making some progress in disentangling himself from AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 11 April 1979 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Proofs have been returned for the introduction for vol. 1 of the Johannes Lupi collected-works edition; "Your German printers are far more accurate than any American printers we have dealt with." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 11 April 1979 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky checks in with Carapetyan and invites him to visit Chicago. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 7 June 1979 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan is working on speeding up the publication of the Johannes Lupi edition and getting the second round of proofs to them. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 25 July 1979 | Cortijo Grande Turre (Almenia) (Spain) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn was unhappy to see the announcement of a "Johannes Lupus" edition in MD, when she had taken pains to distinguish between the three Lupus figures. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 4 September 1979 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "The rhythm of AIM work has changed since shift of production to H[änssler]-V[erlag]. Now we have a crisis in supply of paper too. (The Arabs & Co. shower us with new blessings every half year!)… [Friedrich] Hänssler is a very good man, but he is in too many things extracurricular to a publisher, though with humane motives." "Destination, after we leave here, is as yet only known to the gods, but we keep in touch by telephone with Florence for quick forwarding of mail. We hope of course not to be 'on the road' again... This can easily be accomplished once we have a home again, and that is the overriding problem facing me, not made easy by the national and international conditions, nor by the falling dollar." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 20 September 1979 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "Feeling the irony of having passed production [of the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition] to H[änssler]-V[erlag] just at this pars." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 3 December 1979 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Alvin H. Johnson | Carapetyan responds to a notice that his membership dues are late, notes that he's been honored by election earlier that year to honorary membership, and encloses a check of $50. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 2, Folder 80 |
| 4 March 1980 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "It looks as if this spring we're going to see the publication of Bonnie's first major work [the Johannes Lupi edition]." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 7 April 1980 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "Spain is not, and has never been, our favorite country in Europe, but for the climate we seek it is the only choice." "Haenssler-Verlag seems to be in a funk as regards the AIM editions. [Peter] Thalheimer is leaving or has left and new man is starting in. I have not been able to get even MD XXXII out of them, though in the last proofs for over a year. [Friedrich] Haenssler has been asking for a meeting." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 24 June 1980 | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | Harriette Carapetyan describes health problems for Armen Carapetyan, including shingles. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 5 September 1980 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "[Bonnie Blackburn] is deeply disappointed about the complete uncertainty concerning [the] date" for the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 9 September 1980 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald and Margaret Grout | Spain proved frustrating; "The AIM… how dear it has cost us..."; "Florence (or Italy anyway) has been and still feels our spiritual home" | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 18 September 1980 | 44 Via San Leonardo 50125 Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | "I learn from your letter that Hänssler-Verlag took over my copyrights. News. That Denise Heap was a bull in a chinashop. Thank heaven she is gone. She has done harm by her unathorized crazy initiatives, her vulgar chatter. I have had to ask Hänssler to mail out a statement annulling her last insolence in asking our collaborators for matter for a newsletter issued by her, even when she is out of the thing." | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 98 (Claude V. Palisca Papers), Box 23, Folder 413 |
| 23 September 1980 | I Tatti, Florence (Italy) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "I was in Neuhausen in June. [Peter] Thalheimer (who is now out) simply did not cope. It is bitter to admit that these delays have not been by pace or policy, but by sheer chaos in mode of work. I found 40 editions in utter confusion, not even kept in material apart from another." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 2 October 1980 | Donald and Margaret Grout | Armen Carapetyan | The Grouts ask if Carapetyan's disappointment with Spain had to do with his idealized vision. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 | |
| 1 November 1980 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "[Peter] Thalheimer and company are fortunately out. Frau Charlotte Pringsheim, now in charge of the administration of the AIM editions, is a mature person with over 20 years' experience in England in music publishing (I think "Musica Rara" and others). If she stays on, as I hope, things will be more than palpably changed. Herr Ziegler is an experienced, good man. He has been at Haenssler-Verlag many years in charge of production. I asked for and obtained half of his time for the AIM." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 4 November 1980 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn thanks Carapetyan for working so closely with her in publishing the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 17 December 1980 | 6423 Dykes Way, Dallas, Texas 75230 (United States) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | Following grueling work for AIM at Neuhausen, the Carapetyans are now staying with Armen's brother, Caro Carapetyan, in Dallas. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 31 December 1980 | Dallas, Texas (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "In the meantime we have taken a look at southern Arizona… this will mean turning the back to Europe, which I confess is very, very hard. Too many years there, too many irons in the fire, too many sentimental ties." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 11 January 1981 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn wants the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition to be reviewed; she also wants to sign a contract, since Hänssler Verlag has taken over. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 11 January 1981 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky notes his confusion over the state and location of the translation of Ramos de Pareia's "Musica Practica." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 30 January 1981 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Two copies of the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition were delivered and look attractive. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 30 January 1981 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Proofs for the Johannis Lupi collected-works edition are in Lowinsky's hands. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 20 March 1981 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Donald and Margaret Grout | Carapetyan sends his greetings from Tubac. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 5 April 1981 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Four author's copies was the norm for CMM under Carapetyan; the trouble with Friedrich Hänssler is "ironically: religion. He is very active in the church, especially in the young peoples' part, spreading himself all over kingdom come, always on the run, always tired, and not in the best of health." Gossip has been lively about MD's demise. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 29 April 1981 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is glad to sign the contract with Hänssler Verlag for the legal assurances that they will publish the edition; she has an article for Carapetyan for MD. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 29 April 1981 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | MD continues to be published. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 6 May 1981 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Two additional copies of vol. 1 of the Johannes Lupi edition have arrived. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 25 May 1981 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Charlotte Pringsheim has resigned at Hänssler Verlag. The next volume of the Johannes Lupi edition will hopefully be out by autumn. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 11 June 1981 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky acknowledges Carapetyan's letter. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 19 August 1981 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan spent a year and a half in Paris in 1927–28, a further year at the Sorbonne from 1933 to 1934, and then the winter of 1938–39 in Venice. Eight publications are ready for press, ten others are nearly ready. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 23 November 1981 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn plans to return to vol. 2 of the Johannes Lupi edition shortly (the fair copy of the music is being proofread currently). | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 23 November 1981 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "Were you to set aside one single hour a day for writing the story of AIM, the result would undoubtedly be the most interesting book on one of the truly monumental undertakings of 20th-century musicology, complete with precious letters and other documents that should not be lost." Lowinsky wished that there had been an AIM table at the Boston AMS meeting. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 20 December 1981 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Friedrich Hänssler doesn’t have a grasp of the AIM business; Ziegler now running the production end, with two assistants, whom he writes of highly; four proofs for one volume. "I discarded the very first volume in CMM [Guillaume Du Fay] because there were some misspellings in it, and I recall [Jacques] Handschin scolding me for it - he of all men." "The idea of writing something on this and enterprise of mine has once or twice come to mind, not because I have had such a sense of importance, but for the interest that it may be to musicologists to read about men and women in the field, some of them already dead, who are themselves interesting, and with whom I have had dealings. Unfortunately correspondence of some eight very active years, left behind in Spain, was ruined by rats; but there is plenty more. Unfortunately too I have never kept a diary, and memory is very inadequate." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 23 March 1982 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is sending vol. 2 of the Johannes Lupi edition. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 23 March 1982 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "It is not only the men and women in the field—we want to know about the enterprise itself which has changed the musicological scene and set our work ahead by at least three generations. We want to know about the man who conceived so Utopian an idea and then went on to execute it; we want to know about the men who formed this mind, the scholars who influenced the course of events and of procedures." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 25 March 1982 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn sends a postscript to her letter from two days before. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 7 April 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | The second volume for the Johannes Lupi edition has arrived; Carapetyan will go to Germany in the next month; CSM is not discontinued, following discussions on large works. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 20 May 1982 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is waiting for a detail to send her article to Carapetyan on Florence 121. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 20 June 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "I was never out of AIM work after 1978 when I thought I might gradually withdraw." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 9 July 1982 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn asks about whether it is possible to quickly publish her article on Florence 121, given that she has given Howard Mayer Brown license to use her text reconstruction for Jacob Obrecht's "Meiskin es u." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 19 July 1982 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan acknowledges that he has received Blackburn's article. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 22 August 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan received an offprint of Lowinsky's article "Music in Titian's 'Bacchanal of the Andrians'." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 1 November 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Thirty-four volumes at Neuhausen in the seven series are in various stages in the publication process; twenty volumes after some nineteen hours were "druckfertig." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 3 November 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | Carapetyan has just returned from nine days of work at AIM. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 13 December 1982 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is pleased with the typography and engraving of the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 21 December 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | "Trusting that I still exist in your memory, I am writing about the edition of Lionel Power, which has been discussed with you. [Charles] Hamm must be let alone. Apparently his interests have gone too far astray from Lionel. The last time, now many years ago, I discussed the edition with him he presented some problems and put some questions. We came to an agreement on the mode of completing the edition, but I am not able to recall it, and I do not have ready access here to past papers." "I was on one of my periodic work sessions at Neuhausen last September and shall return there in the spring." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 28 December 1982 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is not pleased with the "busy ant" part of Martin Picker's and Richard Sherr's reviews of the first volume of the Johannes Lupi edition; Blackburn wants a "serious review by a mature scholar." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 28 February 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn returns proofs for her article on Florence 121. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 28 February 1983 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | MD is the only specialist journal left after "Annales Musicologiques" ended with Geneviève Thibault de Chambure's death (vol. VII of that journal was ready for press, but never was published). | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 2 April 1983 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky tells Carapetyan to take care of himself. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 8 April 1983 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | The German printers that Hänssler Verlag used were not of sufficient quality; better people could be found in Holland, but the costs there were much higher, and costs govern AIM. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 22 April 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn asks if she could get 50 offprints, instead of 25, for her article in MD ("Journal of the American Musicological Society" and "Early Music History" offered 100). | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 28 May 1983 | Margaret Bent | Armen Carapetyan | To finish the Lionel Power edition, Bent and Carapetyan would need to agree how to handle the overlap with the Old Hall Manuscript edition. Bent also sees some issues with the first volume of the Power edition. | Private, Margaret Bent | |
| 6 June 1983 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan will be traveling in Spain and Greece. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 20 July 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn read through proofs for MD article and made corrections. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 20 July 1983 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky notes that the proofs for Blackburn's MD article arrived. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 29 August 1983 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "[Paul Oskar] Kristeller never forgave me for not having supplied offprints." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 31 August 1983 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Margaret Bent | Carapetyan agrees to a new version of vol. 1 for the Lionel Power edition, as well as one volume of music not from the Old Hall Manuscript; "by the way, transition to Haenssler-Verlag brought about delays. MD was the worst sufferer, disappearing over two years. Whereas during all those years I never asked for an article, the impression of a defunct MD affected the flow of appropriate articles. MD XXXV is now about to go to press, but we are still two years behind." | Private, Margaret Bent |
| 29 September 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn and Edward Lowinsky discovered an acrostic in Florence 121 for "Marietta" and want to add a postscript. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 29 September 1983 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Ludwig Finscher renewed Lowinsky's Heidelberg doctoral degree. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 3 October 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is delighted that Carapetyan is willing to offer a color plate for her article in MD. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 28 October 1983 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "It plunged me, once more, into meditation on things past… a meeting in Germany requested by a young man recently out of university, wishing to come to Italy as assistant. The 'sympathique' young man was [Ludwig] Finscher." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 3 November 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | To end MD "would be an irreplaceable loss to musicology." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 3 November 1983 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | "I was surprised and enchanted to hear the story of the young [Ludwig] Finscher. You are that rare editor that makes a writer's heart beat faster." | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 14 November 1983 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | The color plate that has arrived is very small (4x5, rather than 18x24 as ordered). | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 17 November 1983 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is glad to hear that the transparency for color facsimile arrived and has been sent to Hänssler Verlag. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 9 January 1984 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | The translation of Vincenzo Galilei's "Fronimo" by Carol MacClintock was disastrous. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 26 February 1984 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan has deleted the black and white plate and left color plate in Blackburn's article in MD. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 2 March 1984 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn thanks Carapetyan for including a color plate in her article in MD. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 2 June 1984 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn is delighted with her article in MD; she has received the galley proofs of the introduction to vol. 2 of the Johannes Lupi edition; asks if Carapetyan will attend the next AMS meeting | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 2 June 1984 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky has criticized Hänssler Verlag's typography previously, but MD 35 is impeccable. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 31 August 1984 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | Carapetyan may end MD, as it is not securing first-rate articles. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 6 January 1985 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky | "In 1947 I was invited to join the Council of the IMS in a preliminary meeting for resuscitating the society after WW II. I was on my way to Basel from our then home in Capri, with a stop in Florence, where mail about the meeting smelled of politics. I changed direction and returned home, to the great displeasure of my revered friend [Jacques] Handschin. Shortly after I declined various opportunities for distinction." He only attended the 1952 IMS to meet Charles van den Borren and settle issues with regard to editions. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 |
| 7 January 1985 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Claude V. Palisca | Carapetyan thanks Palisca for contributing to Festschrift MD volume. | Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, MSS 98 (Claude V. Palisca Papers), Box 23, Folder 413 |
| 4 February 1985 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Gilbert Reaney and Frank D'Accone asked Lowinsky to write an article on Josquin des Prez for MD, and he accepted the invitation. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 13 March 1985 | Edward Lowinsky | Armen Carapetyan | Lowinsky saw something in the "New York Times" and is sending it along. | University of Chicago, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Edward E. Lowinsky Papers, Series 1, Box 7, Folder 5 | |
| 26 March 1985 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky and Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan used to "keep card-file to show at any moment every stage and date in a volume's progress." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 30 March 1985 | P.O. Box 2051 Tubac, Arizona (United States) | Armen Carapetyan | Alvin H. Johnson | Carapetyan notes that he is moving by 1 May 1985 to Monte de los Almendros, Salobreña (Granada), Spain. | University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Ms. Coll. 221 (American Musicological Society records), Box 2, Folder 80 |
| 4 April 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn informs Carapetyan that her last writing to Hänssler Verlag resulted in a letter from Elaine Dunn and a third set of proofs that were largely correct (three new errors were introduced); the third volume of the Johannes Lupi edition is finished and ready to be sent to Carapetyan. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 10 April 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn indicates interest from Hellmut Federhofer to publish Treviso article in "Acta Musicologica." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 15 April 1985 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan has pressed for vol. 2 of the Johannes Lupi edition to be engraved; he asks that Blackburn sends vol. 3 to Hänssler marked for Carapetyan. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 15 April 1985 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Ursula Günther has been discussing with Carapetyan publishing for a volume of MD the proceedings of "Music at State, Court, Church in 14–15th C"; if Blackburn wants to publish in MD, she will have to wait for vol. 39. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 4 May 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Carapetyan got Hänssler Verlag to speed up the processing of the Johannes Lupi edition; Hellmut Federhofer could not publish Blackburn's Treviso article in "Acta Musicologica" given its length; Blackburn asks about its suitability for MSD and RMS series. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 6 August 1985 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "I had to leave the darkness of sunny Arizona. And be assured that it is good to be back to Europe, even if in the least European part of it, and despite the problem we are facing. Italy is our spiritual home – or was, before the changes, even in climate. Spain has never been a home to us in that sense, except for affording more or less suitable climate (the tyranny of that requirement)"; "The most interesting item in new editions is P[ierre] de la Rue, another work that turns my head if I think of the vicissitudes since 1947!" | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 15 August 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn has finished proofreading the music for the second volume of the Johannes Lupi edition and is now starting on the third volume. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 1 September 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn has finished proofreading the music for the third volume of the Johannes Lupi edition and hopes to have it published in 1985. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 15 September 1985 | Armen Carapetyan | Edward Lowinsky and Bonnie Blackburn | With regard to the third voume of the Johannes Lupi edition: "I even enjoyed the critical apparatus, luxuriant, and – may I say it – not allowed to every editor." "Lupi is done actually by the classic method, engraving on metal plates!" | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 18 September 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | David Fallows wrote that Blackburn's work on the Treviso manuscripts was too large for the "Journal of the Royal Musical Association." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 29 September 1985 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan offers suggestions for publishing Blackburn's work through AIM. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 30 September 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | "In the next century the publications of the American Institute of Musicology, for which one man is responsible, will be viewed with the same awe with which we today regard the achievements of [Robert] Eitner and [Edmond de] Coussemaker." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 17 October 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn relays Edward Lowinsky's death; "I am trying to balance grief with thankfulness for all the years we had." "Alas, the great work on Josquin, on which [Lowinsky] had set his heart for so many years, and for which he had done much research, was never written." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 2 November 1985 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan offers his condolences for Edward Lowinsky's death: "musicology suffers a loss. Fortunate that you are there to carry on what he has left behind. But of course he has already left an heritage. It is in this sense that immortality is real, palpable." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 30 November 1985 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn has been working on Edward Lowinsky's collected essays and the Giovanni Spataro correspondence. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 20 January 1986 | Pfaffenwiesbacher Strasse 4, 6393 Wehrheim, Hesse (Germany) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan is anxious to bring MD up-to-date; he does not like long articles; he asks Blackburn for a contribution. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 6 February 1986 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | "Armen [Carapetyan] is far from well but carries on valiantly just the same"; Donald Grout had Alzheimer's disease. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 9 February 1986 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Clement Miller had not worked extensively on the Giovanni Spataro correspondence in recent years, but now is working on translations again; "Musical Quarterly" is moving away from historical studies; "Howard [Mayer] Brown and I have decided that I will be the editor of Edward [Lowinsky]'s Collected Essays and he will write the Introduction." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 18 June 1986 | Salobreña (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Blackburn's "brief 'Oxford will publish it', referring to the Giovanni Spataro Correspondence, rather surprised me. All these years I had assumed it would be among the AIM publications. But no matter."; "I have been wondering whether MD should go on after Volume XL, making it a round forty years in the wilderness. Everybody is urging continuation, though now there are other periodicals doing similar work. I will have to see. MD has been – surprisingly as it may sound – one of the most time consuming and most thankless of my endeavors." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 7 September 1986 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | "I suppose that Edward [Lowinsky] may have considered publishing the [Giovanni] Spataro correspondence in the AIM, knowing that you care as much as he did about the physical beauty of a book. It was never his habit to commit himself with a publisher until his book was nearly ready. He did feel a loyalty to Oxford University Press too because of the handsome publication of the Josquin [des Prez] Proceedings, and he had preliminary discussions with the Oxford editor when he was here two years ago. You will understand that the uncertain pace of the AIM editions had something to do with it." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 9 December 1986 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "Edward [Lowinsky] was in correspondence with me back in 1958, as I recall, proposing the publication [of the Giovanni Spataro correspondence]." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 10 December 1986 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Margaret Grout | Armen and Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout provides a family update. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 3 January 1987 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn asked to take over courses at the University of Chicago; "two volumes of the Jacquet [of Mantua] edition arrived about a month ago, but that is all I have received in some time. In the last MD you did not follow your previous practice of indicating new publications with an asterisk, which was always very useful. I've forgotten how many of the subscription orders I retained (I had to cut back a lot on book purchases)." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 7 May 1987 | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "You are right about asterisks in the catalogue. I have ordered them to be reintroduced. Formerly every detail in production was in my hands. Now I cannot count on perfect performance (not that I ever thought mine was). But the CMM and CMM series are by no means closing off!" | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 2 April 1988 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn had difficulty finding a teaching position, but received a Guggenheim Fellowship; has received four proofs of the introduction to the Johannes Lupi edition, but not received the proofs for the music yet. Inquiries about the edition over the past year have been ignored. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 24 July 1988 | Salobreña (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan inquires if Blackburn had received the proofs for the third volume of the Johannes Lupi edition; "I fear the musicological world, if it cares at all, must not expect a flow of AIM publications as in the past when everything was under my control. However, last year nine volumes were issued, which hardly justifies your pessimistic remark about the AIM languishing. Admittedly, the shelves at [Hänssler] Verlag hold too many works awaiting the works, and the pipeline is very full." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 29 July 1988 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Harriette Carapetyan | Margaret Grout | "Armen [Carapetyan] was WRETCHED in Tubac. Simply lost. It was a great mistake to go back to the States when so many ties kept us on this side." | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 30 August 1988 | Monte de los Almendros, 18680 Salobreña (Grenada) (Spain) | Margaret Grout | Harriette Carapetyan | Donald Grout's memory loss began in Summer 1977. | Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Donald Jay Grout Papers, 1929–2002, Box 52, Folder 35 |
| 11 September 1988 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn working in Chicago, but coming to Italy in the spring; indexing the Spataro correspondence; proofs for the third volume of the Johannes Lupi edition have been corrected and sent back (good quality); wants Gilbert Reaney to edit Johannes Hothby's "Calliopea" for publication in AIM; "I have a very energetic editor who is a classicist by training, but also knows Italian. He is proving invaluable, although the poor fellow (not a regular music editor) is having a tough time with all those letters on notation." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 23 October 1990 | Salobreña (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | Carapetyan had been in the United States from 7 May for six months; "I have something of a misfortune in witnessing the slowing down of AIM publications. [Friedrich] Haenssler had been reorganizing the Verlag – I gather dropping some of his numerous branches in the business. He is a victim of too much idealism, certainly of too much interest and activity in the youth organizations of his (Lutheran) church. Then too many other noble ideas. All very well, but if you have a big publishing house, employing as many as 180 people (now reduced, thanks to electronics) you must also act as a hard headed businessman." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 1 February 1991 | Salobreña (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "Having occupied dozens of houses in various contries during the fifty-three years of our married life, we know the excitement, the pleasures (and the problems, too,) of finding one's self in a new home environment." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 2 April 1991 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn offers her condolences for the death of Armen's brother; Margaret Bent is moving to Oxford; Blackburn is beginning to more significantly copy-edit at Oxford University Press. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 18 November 1991 | Salobrena (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "As it happened, they were having an international conference on Pythagorean philosophy. I attended one of the lectures, deadly dry and boring, and regretfully thought of time, years, wasted on reading philosophy at Harvard then giving philosophy up for philosophical reasons." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 30 November 1991 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn offers an update about 1991 AMS and the publication of the Giovanni Spataro correspondence. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 25 May 1992 | Salobrena (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "No, I am not disappointed not to have [the Giovanni Spataro volume] in the AIM series. By now I would not even have wished it there, at least for fear of inadequate production. In fact, if I may be frank, I find the present production not quite worthy of the great task and its contribution in question. The book should have had a more elegant form. In saying this I am only complementing the editors." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 5 June 1992 | Bonnie Blackburn | Armen Carapetyan | Blackburn describes her find on a visit to Rome of the 1526 printing contract for Niccolò de Giudici with Matteo Bosca. | Private, Bonnie Blackburn | |
| 28 August 1992 | Salobrena (Spain) | Armen Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "You have mentioned Nino Pirrotta. From time to time he asks us why we don't return to Rome for a visit. Indeed, why not? Yet the unwritten injunction, 'Don't return to where you have had a happy and productive life' has some force, certainly given our age and the enormous changes in recent years. On the other hand, the desire to see old friends has its own force. It is forty-four years since we met Nino. He came to the Torre di Bellosguardo as 'student' at our second summer session. He was well liked by ev[e]rybody, especially, as I recall, by [Yvonne] Rokseth. He has gone a long way since then." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 22 November 1992 | c/o Batby P.O. Box 188, Main St., Francestown, NH 03043 (United States) | Bonnie Blackburn | Harriette Carapetyan | "It was a shock to hear, at the AMS meeting that Armen [Carapetyan] had died—and that already a month earlier. Frank [D'Accone] delivered a warm and heartfelt eulogy. The giants of that generation are now almost all gone. Armen was one of them, and we all owe him an incalculable debt." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |
| 23 December 1992 | P.O. Box 188, Francestown, New Hampshire, 03043 (United States) | Harriette Carapetyan | Bonnie Blackburn | "[Armen Carapetyan's] loss is tremendous, but it had been threatening the last year of his life. I refused to accept it. He knew. We had come to the U.S. to visit our daughter in Francestown for a month, planning to move on to Arizona. We arrived on the 4th of September. He died the next day. The 'cause' was supposedly a heart attack, but the real cause was years and years of suffering of one kind or another – aggravated by a very trying, tiring trip over, the last straw being lost luggage on arrival at Boston." "There had to be a last letter he ever wrote. I think you received it." | Private, Bonnie Blackburn |