Acknowledgments

I express my gratitude to Dr. Victoria L. Cooper, former Senior Commissioning Editor, Music and Theatre, at Cambridge University Press, for her initial approval of the project, which came about as the result of a brief conversation at the 2014 meeting of the American Musicological Society. My sincere thanks to her successor in the position, Dr. Katharina Brett, who was no less enthusiastic and helpful. Her expert advice and guidance, and that of editorial assistant Eilidh Burrett, content manager Lisa Sinclair, and copy-editor Kilmeny MacBride were essential in putting all of the many parts of this book together and shepherding it to publication, as were Samantha Bassler’s untiring efforts in formatting the index.

I am deeply grateful to my wife, violinist and professor Dr. Carol Lieberman, and my dear friend Professor Wendy Heller of Princeton University for reading my two chapters many times and for their advice and careful proofreading. They seem to have done this for everything I have written and published, and I hope they will still be willing to do so in the future. I am also indebted to Dr. Valerie Walden, my former student and now expert cellist and musicologist, whose work I cite, and who also carefully read my chapters. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the contributors to this book. These distinguished scholars responded to all of my editorial questions, suggestions, and corrections with an equally inexhaustible amount of patience, expertise, and professionalism.