I knew the moment I posted the message that I was going to be rapped on the
knuckles! Fine. I don't mind. But I would like to reiterate my opinion that
one thing is to exchange ideas and information, and I am all for it; another
to ask for information that can be easily gathered simply by looking up a name
in a library catalogue such as the BL or the Library of Congress available in
any university library, or in the Encyclopedia Britannica. I am no
musicologist, but if I come across some unknown composer I do not ask my
colleagues in the Music Department but look the name up in the New Grove to
begin with. Then, if I don't find him/her there, or in any catalogue, I ask
the advice of the librarians. If the librarians can't come up with anything, I
go to my musicologist colleagues as a last resort. Those who know me know also
that I can't stand ivory towers or academic preserves, and I firmly believe in
a free and generous exchange of information. What I meant to do with my
message was to contribute the basic methodological point of how to go about
finding information.
Giovanni Carsaniga
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