Putnam Calder Aldrich (July 14, 1904 – April 18, 1975)[1] was an American harpsichordist, musicologist and Professor of Music at Stanford University.
[2] He is credited with creating the Ph.D. music program at Stanford University,[3] for "establishing the first union of the disciplines of musicology and performance technique"[4] and for developing the first graduate program in Early music in the country.
in 1936 for "A Study of Vocal and Instrumental Ornamentation in the Music of the Middle Ages, with Particular Reference to the Relationship between the Two."
He later received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942 with the dissertation "The Principal Agreements of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Study in Musical Ornamentation.'
He wrote music criticism for Boston newspapers and articles on subjects such as Bach and Couperin for the Saturday Review (U.S. magazine).