Excerpt from MusicI cannot but hope, therefore, that it will be found useful to Musical Students generally, beyond the class for whose use it was originally designed. It furnishes a guide to their studies, and a body of instruction, succinct indeed, but not, I trust, meagre or superficial, such as may help them to recall the more detailed instructions imparted orally by their professors and serving, by its systematic arrangement, and its copious Index, together with the Glossary, as a book for ready reference in the course of their studies. It may answer, in this way, to someextent, the purposes of a Dictionary of Mus1c with the great advantage that everything that is referred to, by means of the Index, will be found in its proper logical connection.This latter feature, indeed, induces me to hope still further, that the book will be found a convenient and useful manual of reference for general readers who do not systematically pursue the study of musical theory, whether performers, or simple lovers of music, forming a handy compendium of musical knowledge. It is mainly on account of this collateral purpose of rendering the book one for reference as well as for study, that so many technical terms are mentioned in it. Approval of them is by no means intended by their insertion, nor any wish that very many of them should be used, but, as they are used, by various writers, it is desirable that the student should know what they mean, when he meets with them.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 work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.