XVI PREFACE
features chapter-by-chapter summaries, suggested activities, maps, and test
questions. We have harnessed the potential of the Internet to search out resources
of every sort, particularly in the visual arts. Included are updated bibliographies
and discographies of works in music and film on CD, VHS, and DVD, keyed to
each chapter. We encourage readers to take a look for themselves at the many
riches and rewards that can be found there: http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195143388.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We have received help and encouragement from many colleagues, students, and
friends over the years, and in the publishing of each of the seven editions nu-
merous people have provided valuable critical reviews or been involved in ed-
itorial development and production. To all who have contributed so much, we
are deeply grateful.
We are particularly gratified that this new edition is published by Oxford
University Press, and we want to thank Robert Miller, Executive Editor, for his
efforts on our behalf, and also Liam Dalzell and all the others who have been
responsible for editing and production.
Michael Sham, of Siena College, has also made valuable contributions, par-
ticularly in the creation of our Website and its revision to accompany the sev-
enth edition.
From the beginning, Charles Alton McCloud has shared with us his expertise
in music, dance, and theater.
Martha Morford was a constant support to the authors, with her critical acu-
men and profound knowledge of the history of art, and she is remembered with
deep gratitude.Mark P. 0. Morford
Robert J. Lenardon