1.   And the Basie band was ready, said Chuck Haddix, a music historian and director of the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

2.   As the music historian Edward Lippman was among the first to note, the transporting effect thus achieved was the very nub of musical Romanticism.

3.   Chuck Haddix, a local popular music historian and sound archivist, said Thursday he had a pretty good idea who some of the competition was.

4.   Its story, archivists and music historians say, is just waiting to be told.

5.   Music historians credit Dolby with helping usher in a new era in pop music by exploring new technology like synthesizers.

6.   Names like Aeolian, Welte-Mignon and Ampico are becoming as familiar to music historians as Forkel, Kochel and C.P.E. Bach.

7.   Odetta, the singer and music historian.

8.   Music historians and archaeologists were intrigued by the find.