[Letter from Andrew Hughes]Author(s): Andrew HughesSource: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), p. 206Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/831167 .

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C COMMUNICATIONS

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

AFTER MANY YEARS OF COLLECTING AND SIFTING RHYMED OFFICES, and because financial assistance for continuing to investigate this repertory has ended, I have decided to publish a book summarizing the state of present knowledge about this subject. I have two volumes planned. The first will be a survey of the repertory, its sources, the bibliography, and the liturgical context. It will include lists of feasts, composers, manuscripts, and other useful information. The second will discuss the poetry and chants in more detail, looking at selected offices in the context of the repertory as a whole. A more complete plan of the volumes is available.

By the time this communication appears, I hope to have on computer tape a complete word concordance of rhymed office texts, based on those printed in Analecta hymnica. I shall try to publish this concordance on microfiche; meanwhile my facilities for locating texts are very limited. About 4,000 chants are stored on computer discs, and my access is again very limited.

If any reader has information about this repertory, I would welcome correspondence. I shall reciprocate as far as the state of my data allows. In particular I should be pleased to receive transcriptions or photographic reproductions of rhymed offices with music.

ANDREW HUGHES University of Toronto

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

AN ANNOTATED THEMATIC CATALOGUE of the complete works of Camille Saint-Saens is in preparation. Any information concerning the location of his music manuscripts and other original documents will be greatly appreciated. Please write to Sabina Ratner, 4595 Circle Road, Montreal,

Qu6bec,'.Canada H3W IY9.

SABINA RATNER Vanier College

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE, I hereby respond to a Communication in this JOURNAL, XXXVI (1983), 341-44, in which Hans Tischler takes exception with my review, this JOURNAL, XXXV (1982), 539-54, of the anthology

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