Publisher's Synopsis
THIS study is addressed particularly to those who do not wholly understand music, but want to do so, and to enjoy it to the full. It is a complete discussion in untechnical language of musical art-the history of music, kinds and forms of music, instruments, orchestras, composers, singers, conductors. The author is very much in sympathy with the "liberating tendencies of modern music, which lays more stress upon the expression of life and truth than upon the exact form in which these are sought to be expressed." He personally prefers a Wagner music-drama to a Mozart opera, or a Strauss tone poem to a Beethoven symphony; but he recognizes the importance of the older forms and devotes a substantial part of his volume to the classical epoch, its great masters, and the forms in which they worked.
The book is well adapted to its purpose, and will be delightful and helpful reading to music lovers with small knowledge of the technique of the subject.
-"Atlantic Educational Journal," Volume 3
