G. Grayson Wagstaff
Virginian Commonwealth University, Richmond

It gives me great pleasure to make this presentation on behalf of my teacher Robert Snow, who sends his regrets that he was not able to be here this afternoon. I am pleased and honored to be here on Dr. Snow's behalf because it gives me the opportunity to thank Dr. Stevenson publicly for all his encouragement during my long trek toward the Ph. D. As Lester Brothers indicated, Professor Stevenson always gave ample encouragement and time to his own students. He also has shared his time and expertise with students at other institutions in the United States, Spain, Portugal, and throughout Latin America. I will always be grateful for his generous help.

Professor Snow has asked me to present to Dr. Stevenson this copy of the title page, dedication, and table of contents from his forthcoming volume, Guatemala Cathedral MS 4: Music for the Salve Service, to be published in the Monuments of Renaissance Music Series from the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Snow has decided to dedicate his forthcoming monograph to Robert Stevenson. In his dedication, Snow makes reference to a statement of respect shared among medieval scholars. John of Salisbury in his Metalogicon of 1159 stated that Bernard of Chartres, when comparing scholars in their own time to the great minds of the ancient world, said that "we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised by their giant size" (The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, New York, 1992).

Because of Dr. Stevenson's seminal work on so many aspects of Iberian and Latin American music, it gives me great pleasure to present to him, these copies from the volume, with its dedication to read:
 

"To Robert Stevenson, on whose shoulders all American Hispanicists stand."