Excerpt from Musical Art and Study: Papers for MusiciansI suppose that an impression prevails that it is not a matter Of much learning to be a musician, even a theoretical musician. Well, there are cer tainly the three learned professions: Divinity, which should perhaps hardly be so much a profes sion as an inspiration, and which, at all events, is too Often pursued with professional perfunctoriness. But that which we profess has the like heavenly, divine origin, it is not man-made. There is Law, with its history, its logic, its entanglements and perplexities. I am not sure but that, while we can exceed it in attractiveness, we can also match it for intricacy, when we deal with double, triple, and quadruple counterpoints, and such matters.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.