On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:38:37 -0500, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
I'd suspect(speculating here) that part of the problem for the musicologists is that no extensive organization of the pre-1900 documentation occurred when people were still around who knew about the material.
Rather the opposite: by 1900 they had decided it was worth doing, and everyone was at it, so there was so *much* material it became unmanageable :-)
Guy (JzG)