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The essays that follow show some of the many directions taken by John Ward's students and colleagues, whose lives he has touched through both professional contact and personal friendship. Contents: Feast of the reception of the relics at Notre Dame of Paris /; Craig Wright --; Another source for the Beauvais Feast of fools /; David G. Hughes --; Updating the style: Francesco Corteccia's revisions in his responsories for Holy Week /; Frank A. D'Accone --; Ojibwa begging dance /; Thomas Vennum Jr. --; Ambivalent trecento attitudes toward music: an iconographical view /; Howard Mayer Brown --; Early democratic song and the representation of an American Arcadia /; Nicholas E. Tawa --; Music of the Renaissance as viewed by the romantics /; James Haar --; Claude Debussy, melodramatist /; Lawrence Berman --; Back to Ars Nova themes /; Nino Pirrotta --; Prima ballerina of the fifteenth century /; Eileen Southern --; French revolutionary models for Beethoven's Eroica funeral march /; Claudio V. Palisca --; Twirling duet: a dance narrative from northeast China /; Rulan Cho Pian --; Musical inscriptions in paintings by Caravaggio and his followers /; H. Colin Slim --; Orpheus in Britannia /; Curtis A. Price --; Terpsichore at the fair: old and new dance airs in two vaudeville comedies by Lesage /; Daniel Heartz --; Balagany in Petrushka /; Roland John Wiley --; Parody chanson of Certon's Meslanges /; Edward Kovarik --; Letter from Melchior Newsidler /; Arthur J. Ness --; Da Pu: the recreative process for the music of the seven-string zither /; Bell Yung --; Bela Bartok and text stanzas in Yugoslav folk music /; Albert B. Lord --; Regional song styles: the Scottish connection /; Anne Dhu Shapiro --; Interplay of tonality and nontonal constructs in three pieces from the Mikrokosmos of Bartok /; Ivan Waldbauer --; Drumming in Korean farmers' music: a process of gradual evolution /; Robert C. Provine --; "Oh, I never will forget you": a Saman farewell /; Jacob Wainwright L