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Otherwise, they may be sent to the Editor of Current Musicology for forwarding. PUBLISHED The Music Department UNDER THE AEGIS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York ROBERT A. GREEN H. WILEY HITCHCOCK HUGH H. KERR N IN A ARCHABAL DOUGLASS SEATON SUSETTE CLAUSING ALBRECHT SCHNEIDER DAVID S. JOSEPHSON MALCOLM S. COLE CHARLES H. KAUFMAN ROBERT F. NISBETT HARRY PERISON JUDITH TICK CHARLES W. WARD REPORTS 7 From the Domestic Corresponding Editors: Studies in American Music at Twenty American Campuses 35 Bloomington: The Black Music Center at Indiana University 37 Brooklyn College: The Institute for Studies in American Music 41 Miami: Ives Centennial Festival, 1974- 75 43 Minneapolis: Ives Festivals at Minne- sota, Spring 1971 and Spring 1972 46 Chicago: American Musicological Society Convention, November 1973 From the Foreign Corresponding Editors: 48 Erlangen-Nuremberg: Musicology at the Friedrich-Alexander University 52 Hungary: Fourth International Con- ference on Folk-Music Instruments, May 1973 54 Announcements ARTICLES 55 Percy Grainger-Some Problems and Approaches 69 In Tribute to Charles Edward Ives on the IOoth Anniversary of His Birth 71 Eric Zeisl's "American" Period 79 The Hodges and Newland Collections in the Library of Congress: A Prelimi- nary Report 90 Louis Gruenberg: A Forgotten Figure of American Music 96 The Quarter-Tone System of Charles Ives 105 Ragtime and the Music of Charles Ives 114 Charles Ives's Concept of Music DISSERTATIONS EDWARD BERLIN 120 Robert]. Dietz-The Operatic Style of Marc Blitzstein in the American "Agit- Prop" Era J. BUNKER CLARK RICHARD KOPROWSKI BIBLIOGRAPHICA 127 The Renaissance of Early American Keyboard Music: A Bibliographic Re- VIew 133 "Postface" 135 Contributors