I will end now with where I began, with the industrious collector of the many theory books we have looked at today, Frédéric Louis Ritter. Professor Ritter surely would not have ever wished to characterize himself as a music theorist, even though he taught and wrote texts on some of the bread and butter staples of present day music theorists in his harmony and counterpoint courses at Vassar. As I have already suggested, this is not as it was understood historically. Still, I can't help but think of Ritter as a music theorist in a more humane sense. In his passion for all aspect and periods of music, in his qualities of disciplined study, in his dedication to the teaching of music in all its parameters, and above all, in the breathtaking panorama of his magnificent collection now housed at Tufts University, I would like to think that we can see the face of a music theorist in the most authentic Platonic sense of the word-as the one who seeks to know. And that is a title I think with which Professor Ritter would be very much content.