Morphology of the Music of the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

At the first Annual meeting, held in Philadelphia on December 28th, 1935, the officers as elected at the previous meeting remained in their respective offices, with the exception of Mr. Seeger who was replaced by George S. Dickinson, while Glen Haydon, Hugo Leichtentritt, Otto Ortmann, Roy D. Welch were elected the members at large. At this meeting the President announced the receipt of several inquiries, from members, concerning publications. He reported that the Editor of The Musical Quarterly had offered to assign ioo pages of his magazine each year to papers submitted through the Publication Committee of the Association, the final selection of such papers to be subject to the approval of the Editor and the papers to be printed with some notation, in the captions, designating the authors as members of the Society. . . . The Publication Committee had proposed that, in addition, the Society issue a Bulletin. . . . After general discussion it was, upon motion duly made, seconded, and carried, resolved that the offer of the Editor of The Musical Quarterly be accepted, and furthermore, that the Publication Committee be instructed to study the question of issuing a Bulletin, as a Society publication, . . . to contain abstracts of papers read before the Society and its Chapters, and news of interest to the Society, the period to be covered by the first Bulletin being the first calendar year of the Society.