On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Lenora E McCroskey Dr wrote:
 
> There's a splendid dissertation on the WTC as playable on various keyboard
> instruments.  Matthew Dirst, from Stanford.  He's at Univ. of Houston now.
> I don't remember the exact title at all, but it was about 1993 or so, I
> think.
>
> Lenora
>
 
This may be the work you have in mind:
 
   5  100 1   Dirst, Matthew Charles.
   6  245 10  Bach's Well-tempered clavier in musical thought and
                   practice, 1750-1850 / c Matthew Charles Dirst.
   7  260     c 1996.
   8  300     vii, 176 leaves : b music.
   9  533     Microfilm. b Ann Arbor, Mich. : c University Microfilms
              International, d 1996. e 1 microfilm reel : positive ;35 mm.
  10  500     Publisher's no.: UMI 9620470.
  11  502     Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1996.
 
 
Wm. Parsons
Music Division
Library of Congress