Philip Melnick replies to Tim Mahon:

>The title was "A Dictionary of Musical Themes" by Harold Barlow and Sam
>Morgenstern; Crown Publishers, New York, 1948. May have been revised later
>but surely out of print now.
>
>The notation was ABCDEFG (plus sharps and flats) and varied in length, with
>everything transposed into the key of C and listed in alphabetical order.

Tim is citing a different thematic dictionary.  It has been mentioned
here before, but I can't find the reference.  It really was based on
the Up/Down/Same relative motion of the successive notes of a theme.

len.