Tunes for 'Toons [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIn tracing tlie history and development of this project, I am reminded that it spans close to twenty-five years, and involves many, many people-so many that I'm certain I will forget to thank or acknowledge someone (who I hope will forgive my poor memory).My piano teacher, the late Blanche Nissim, convinced me it was not enough to just hear the Mozart that inspired this study, but to play it in the hopes of beginning to fully understand it. Ron Perry helped further this affection for music with a great deal of encouragement during high school.I was a new music major at the University of California, Riverside, when I first realized my affinity for and interest in cartoon music; the faculty of the Department of Music encouraged me to continue asking questions. They included Barbara Bennett, who generously hosted in her home my first attempt at empirical research: a gathering of music students playing "name that tune" with cartoon soundtracks. Edward Clinkscale first planted the seed of the notion that music history might be a rewarding field. Philip Brett and Byron Adams gave me a remarkable amount of guidance and support at a time when I found "musicology" an unfamiliar term; these three men ultimately inspired me to become a musicologist myself.While at UCR I took a class taught by a visiting professor, Irene Aim, a UCLA graduate student. On hearing of my proposed project, she insisted 1 contact her UCLA colleague Jim Westby, who guided me through many of the thorny issues I first faced with my research, and has remained a good friend and an unrelenting critic.