Previous posts for October 10th are here: Giuseppe Verdi; Vernon Duke; Evgeny Kissin; Thelonious Monk (2019) and Giuseppe Verdi (2020)
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Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist, long centered at Indiana University.
An Apel for the Teacher
It’s difficult to overstate
The stature of the late and great
Willi Apel, who was prominent
For writing textbooks that were dominant
In graduate music history courses
For decades as essential sources.
His writing was the introduction
To any pre-Baroque instruction:
Music in precise chronology
Is there at hand in his Anthology;
Gregorian chant, arcane notation,
Got their book-length presentation;
Keyboards from the distant past
Were given just deserts at last;
And he found the beauty in
The seventeenth-century violin;
His Dictionary, statuesque,
On every music scholar’s desk.
The years, of course, have superseded
Some of this good work that he did,
But time and tide will never topple
The debt we owe to Willi Apel!
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