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- Subject: RE: *Very* early music
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- From: JAMES QUINN <QUINN@GONZAGA.BITNET>
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:02:00 -0700 (PDT)
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- > Because I was translating from the original text in French, and I wasn't
- > too sure the words were the same in English. As a matter of fact, ceramology
- > is not in the OED (organology is, of course; apologies to organologists
- > worldwide). I suppose it means the study of ceramics.
-
- Could it have been "ceremology," the study of ceremonies and ceremonial
- behavior? But that isn't in the OED either. :-) (O.K., I admit it,
- I'm a neologist!)
-
- Don't forget that the word "musicology" was severely ridiculed in the
- critical world when it was first coined -- detractors spoke of such
- things as "artology" and "paintingology" as obvious corollaries.
-
- BTW, I found the article fascinating and appreciate the time you took to
- translate it for the list. I hope the performances turn up on film
- somewhere.
-
- James Quinn
- Quinn@Gonzaga.edu
-