counterpoint, the history of baroque music, and harpsichord as well as founded the Ph.D. program in music at the university. Aldrich was the exchange professor at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1964-65. Associations In 1949, Aldrich was a founding member of the "Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College," an organization of music teachers which later became the College Music Society. He sat on the board of directors of the American Musicological Society in 1951, 1962 and 1966. Together with Alfred Zighera he founded the Boston Society of Ancient Instruments, and began to give performances on historical instruments. He wrote music criticism for Boston newspapers and articles on subjects such as Bach and Couperin for the Saturday Review (U.S. magazine). Fellowships Putnam received a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship for music research in Italy in 1958. Bibliography Books The principal agréments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : a study of musical ornamentation, Thesis—Harvard University 1942 Ornamentation in J. S. Bach's Organ Works, Da Capo Press, 1978, ©1950 Rhythm in seventeenth-century Italian monody, with an anthology of songs and dances, New York, W.W. Norton ©1966 (As Editor) Music for One, Two, and Three voices, Bryn Mawr, Pa. : T. Presser, ©1969 Articles and published essays (partial list) Contributor of "Ornamentation and related articles" to the Harvard Dictionary of Music "Points Contrapunctus", Saturday Review, July 31, 1954, p. 50 "Bach---Motor or Baroque" Saturday Review, January 29, 1955, pp. 50–51 "Sound and Style", Saturday Review, March 12, 1955, p. 33 "On 'Translating' Bach", Saturday Review, April 30, 1955, pp. 52–53 "Couperin Uncorked", Saturday Review, June 30, 1956, pp. 48–49 "The 'Authentic' Performance of Baroque Music", Essays on Music in Honor of Archibald T. Davison, Cambridge Department of Music, Harvard University, 1957, pp 161–71 "Musical Performance as a Humanistic Study" College Music Symposium, Vol. 4, (Fall, 1964), pp. 53–58 "Wanda Landowska's Musique Ancienne" Notes, Second Series, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1971), pp. 461–468 References American harpsichordists 1904 births 1975 deaths Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century American musicians Yale School of Music alumni Moses Brown School alumni Fulbright alumni