"Musical History as Seen through Contemporary Eyes", edited by Benjamin Knysak and Zdravko Blaekovi, is a Festschrift published in honor of the musicologist H. Robert Cohen. Born in Baltimore, educated in New York, and with a career spanning France, Canada, and the United States, Cohen is the founder of the Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM), the international project focused on the historic musical press. With research interests spanning print culture, music iconography, Hector Berlioz, musical France, and Giuseppe Verdi, this volume presents a collection of essays written by many friends and collaborators exploring these themes and many others. "Musical History as Seen through Contemporary Eyes" is a tribute to Cohen's contributions to musicology, librarianship, and information science spanning more than fifty years.

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Benjamin Knysak is Executive Editor of the Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM). As author and editor of numerous articles and volumes, his research focuses on the historic musical press, music bibliography, information technology, and the historiography of music. Zdravko Blaekovi is director of the Research Center for Music Iconography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and executive editor of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. In 1998 he founded an annual journal for music iconography Music in Art, and in 2016 a monograph series Music in Visual Cultures (Brepols), both of which he has been editing since. His research area concerns 18th- and 19th-century music of Southeast and Central Europe, music iconography, organology, historiography of music, reception of Greek and Roman organology in modern times, musical contacts between Europe and China before the early 19th century, and music symbolism in medieval and renaissance astrology.

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INTRODUCTION Musical Documentation of a "Forgotten Century" and Beyond THE MUSICAL PRESS Malena Kuss A Ditty for a Friend: Honoring H. Robert Cohen through the Work of Zoila Lapique Becali (b. 1930), Doyenne of Cuba's Musical Press Zoila Lapique Becali Nineteenth-Century Music in Cuban Periodicals (18221868) Marten Noorduin The International Tours of Charles Hallé as Viewed in the Contemporary Press Elvidio Surian Appunti sulla musica sacra in Italia nel Novecento Benjamin Knysak "That Derty Review": John C. Freund from Oxford to New York Ruth Henderson Max Strakosch's Rediscovered Memoir Max Strakosch Notes of Max Strakosch Richard Kitson Ursula Greville, Philip Heseltine and The Sackbut (London, 19201934) Antonio Baldassarre Serving "German music" and "the Great Empire of the Germans": The German Periodical Musik im Kriege BERLIOZ, FRANCE AND VERDI Peter Bloom Berlioz and the PanthéonThen and Now Catherine Massip Hector Berlioz ( et les autres) dans l'Illustration de Bade et d'Alsace (18581867) Joost van Gemert A Multifaceted Debate: French, German and Dutch Views on Gregorian Chant in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Allan W. Atlas The Binfields and the Dulckens: The English Concertina in mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris (and Brussels) Ralph P. Locke André Messager's Les p'tites Michu and the Marvels of French Light Opera: A Review and Appreciation John H. Roberts Recalled to Life: The Grands Opras of Charles Gounod Jennifer A. Ward "Oui, j'existe": Marie Bobillier and the French Musical Sources in Robert Eitner's Quellen-Lexikon Peter Sühring Der Scherz des Falstaff war nicht sein letztes Wort. Verdis Sakralmusik MUSIC ICONOGRAPHY Zdravko Blaekovi The Early Years of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale Florence Gétreau Three Founders of Music Iconography in France: Geneviève Thibault de Chambure, Albert Pomme de Mirimonde, and François Lesure Luísa Cymbron Bringing the S. Carlos Theater into the Home: Opera, Illustrated Journalism and Sound Transmission Technologies in Late Nineteenth-Century Lisbon Frits Zwart To the Cinema with Willem Mengelberg: A Meeting with Stokowski and Tchaikovsky Tatjana Markovi "Oriental" memories: Stevan Stojanovi Mokranjac's ballad Lem Edim POPULAR MUSICS AND R-PROJECTS John M. Ehrenburg If You Want to Learn to Play Jazz, Pick Up That Magazine or A Critical (Re)Introduction to Pedagogical Content Published in the Jazz Press, 19141947 Emile Wennekes Bob, Boris, and Boudewijn: H. Robert Cohen's international footsteps elucidated through three singer-songwriters Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie A Tale of Two R-Project Directors Jean-Michel Nectoux, Don Roberts Words of Thanks TABULA GRATULATORIA BIBLIOGRAPHY OF H. ROBERT COHEN