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This book results from a collaborative effort on the part of many individuals , all of whom, if they could, would thank the many people who provided them with help, encouragement, and the occasional helpful citation. While we cannot possibly acknowledge these people individually, we offer a general thanks on our contributors’ behalf. As for ourselves, we wish to acknowledge the many people who have played a role in our shared project. We owe our greatest debt to the authors themselves, whose commitment, determination, and patience is matched by the quality of their contributions to this volume. It has been our great pleasure to work with these scholars throughout this long and complex project. We have learned from their research , and have been inspired by their commitment. Our work has been made all the easier by the care that they have taken in preparing their essays, and we can only hope that we have presented their work to its best advantage. The initiation of this project in the form of a three-day conference, its continuation in an online bibliography, and its culmination in this volume were all supported by a generous Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and we would like to thank the Endowment, and specifically Elizabeth Arndt, whose indefatigable work on our behalf and her unwavering interest in our work were both enormously helpful and deeply gratifying. We have also been supported by our various chairs and deans at the University of Delaware, the Peabody Institute, and Vanderbilt University, and we owe special thanks to the Peabody Institute and the Johns Hopkins University for their hosting of the original conference , and to the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University for a generous subvention to partially defray publication costs. In addition to the institutional support we have received, we also owe an enormous debt to a number of colleagues who have provided advice and enAcknowledgments x · Acknowledgments couragement along the way, most notably Allan Atlas, Patrick Macey, Honey Meconi, Cristle Collins Judd, and Craig Wright, each of whom provided support and wise counsel at various stages of this endeavor. We are fortunate to have such generous colleagues who—along with a host of others, too numerous to be named here—have all contributed in small but crucial ways. We are also indebted to all the libraries and their staffs for their generous help in securing the many images reproduced in this volume. Of course, this book would never have seen the light of day without the hard work of many people at Indiana University Press. We are especially indebted to our editor, Jane Behnken, whose excitement at our initial proposal and continuous work on our behalf were a source of strength, particularly when the inevitable glitches and delays tried our patience. We also wish to thank Jane’s assistants, Katherine Baber and Sarah Wyatt Swanson, and our project editor June Silay, for keeping track of all those details that so easily slip through the cracks, along with David L. Dusenbury for his assiduous copyediting and Paula Durbin-Westby for her expert indexing. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous readers of our initial proposal: their many helpful comments have made this a stronger work. Virginia Woolf famously noted that a writer needed “a room of one’s own” in order to create. While we often think of that room in the physical sense, it is just as often the room created by the patient love of family and friends that makes the writer’s work possible. The three of us owe our final thanks to our friends and families, who provided the much-needed grounding and space for us to take on this task. Our work is richer for their presence in our lives. Russell E. Murray, Jr. Susan Forscher Weiss Cynthia J. Cyrus 16 July 2009 ...