Excerpt from Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and ÆsteticsThe poetic principle, alluded to, may be divided into a lyrical and a dramatic p art, which dis tinction, translated into musical terms, will lead us to the two important forms of the music-drama and the Sony. At the same time it seems to me that only in these two kinds of development music shows a decided advance upon Beethoven's creations, a remark which, of course, is made without any derogatory tendency with regard to the instru mental works of modern composers. In many cases these have displayed individual beauties of tb e highest order without, however, adding essen tially new features to the symphonic form, as established by Beethoven.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.