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TODAY NEVER HAPPENED. TOMORROW IS GONE. YESTERDAY IS A NEW DAY.Miles Draven blames his birth parents for the problems in his life: classmates who torment him, seventeen years of rejection by foster families, and interminable loneliness. Despite his anger, he clings to an old photograph of his parents and two engraved, marble-sized glass orbs they entrusted to him the night of his birth-the same night they abandoned him. Miles hopes these objec...

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Excerpt from How Music Developed: A Critical Ana Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern MusicThe Organum of Hucbald - Use Of combinations disagree able to modern cars - Appearance of rhythm - Work of Franco, of Cologne - Establishment of Dual and Triple Measure - Introduction of notes to represent sounds of different duration.N the growth of modern music the second step was the introduction of harmony. The simultaneous sounding of notes o...

Excerpt from Early History of SingingThe aim of this book should be easily deduced from its title. The author has endeavored to trace the development of the modern art of Sing ing from the beginning of the Christian era to the time of Alessandro Scarlatti. He has treated of vocal forms only to the extent requisite to make clear the character of the technic and the style of each period. His main object has been to Show what singers were expecte...

Excerpt from The Story of MusicThe author believes that he has consulted the best interests of the reader by making free use, not only of the facts published by the standard historians and biographers but also of the opin ions of those who are accepted authorities. He has, however, set forth his own opinions at some length, and the reader will readily distinguish them by the manner of their presentation. The chapter on Wagner and the Opera of ...

Excerpt from The Elements of Navigation: A Short and Complete Explanation of the Standard Methods of Finding the Position of a Ship at Sea and the Course to Be Steered, Designed for the Instruction of BeginnersThe history of the three years 1914 to 1917 has been made with astounding rapidity and no part of it has been more absorbing than that dealing with naval Operations. The position of our own country in the beginning of the great European ...

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Excerpt from What Is Good Music?: Suggestions to Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Musical ArtRecapitulation - The two great impulses - Classicism and Romanticism - Demand for expression - Beethoven's romanticism - Its effect on form - Community of theme Schumann's fourth symphony Its plan of development The Symphonic poem - The programme overture - Liszt's piano concertos - Traits of romantic music.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

Excerpt from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas: A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation, HisThe purpose of this book is to supply Wagner lovers with a single work which shall meet all their needs. The author has told the story of Wagner's life, ex plained his artistic aims, given the history of each of his great works, examined its literary sources, shown how Wagner utilised them, surveyed the musical plan of each drama, and se...

Excerpt from Preludes and Studies: Musical Themes of the DayI. - Laying the Foundations. II. - Development of the Technique. Iii.-the Modern Concerto. IV. - Some Living Players.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wo...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...