More Leads

I received an email today from a musicologist in St. Petersburg with a few more tips on where to find Taneyev manuscripts.  I had already looked into some of her suggestions, but it did prompt me to write a few emails (in Russian) to some institutions.  I'm running out of time.  

I feel more stressed than I should about this.  Mainly because I think I'm fine as far as documents go, but just in case... just in case I find more manuscripts of works I haven't found yet, or some sketches, or something... anything.  

Doing this research has really made me realize that I have to narrow the scope of my dissertation a little bit.  While I will give a background on the pieces in my editions, I cannot recount Taneyev's entire history.  Not for my dissertation, at least.  I want to do it all, but I want to finish my dissertation.  This will give me a beginning platform for more research.  And this beginning platform will have to be extremely solid.