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Excerpt from The Evolution of the Art of Music The following outline of the Evolution of Musical Art was undertaken, at the invitation of Mr. Kegan Paul, somewhere about the year 1884. Its appearance was delayed by the constantly increasing mass of data and evidence about the music of savages, folk music, and mediæval music, and by the necessity of exploring some of the obscure and neglected corners of the wide-spread story of the Art. And th...

Excerpt from The Oxford History of Music, Vol. 3: The Music of the Seventeenth Century The seventeenth century is, musically, almost a blank, even to those who take more than the average interest in the Art, and barely a score of composers' names during the whole time suggest anything more than a mere reputa tion to modern ears. But this is by no means owing to neglect of the Art, or lack of musical energy and enterprise. There was fully as m...

Excerpt from Summary of the History and Development of Mediaeval and Modern European Music A fairly comprehensive and orderly understanding of the history of his art is of great importance to a musician, both for the light it throws upon every department of practical work, for the widening of his artistic sympathies, and for the service that a rational study of history of any kind is capable of rendering to a man's mind and judgment. About t...

Excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great PersonalityInevitably rather confused through the vast array of evidence which has to be marshalled, and it is difficult to derive from it, without great effort, any clear idea of the personality of the composer, as a composer, or any clear impression of his work as a whole. More over, as the writer endeavours to supply technical analyses of most of the works he refers...

Excerpt from Style in Musical Art: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Oxford on March The following Chapters are for the most part founded on Lectures delivered in accordance with the regulations which prescribe the duties of the Professor of Music of Oxford University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an importan...

Excerpt from College Addresses: Delivered to Pupils of the Royal College of Music "There is nothing so tiresome as preaching." The words with which Sir Hubert Parry began one of those addresses, which opened every terms work at the Royal College of Music during the twenty-four years of his directorship, may fitly stand at the head of a volume having at first sight something of the appearance of a book of lay sermons. That appearance would ha...

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