Excerpt from The Growth of Music, Vol. 2: A Study in Musical History for Schools IN this second volume I have followed the same selective principle as that adopted in the first, but the material with which it is concerned has reversed the problem and made it more difficult of solution. Whereas in describing music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the difficulty was Often to find examples for discussion which young people would be likely to hear performed, when we come to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven there is such ...
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Excerpt from The Growth of Music, Vol. 2: A Study in Musical History for Schools IN this second volume I have followed the same selective principle as that adopted in the first, but the material with which it is concerned has reversed the problem and made it more difficult of solution. Whereas in describing music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the difficulty was Often to find examples for discussion which young people would be likely to hear performed, when we come to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven there is such a mass of things which they are certain to hear sooner or later, and about which teachers might be glad to have some guidance, that it has been hard to know what to pass over. NO doubt it will often happen that a teacher who is going to take pupils to a concert will look in vain for some remarks about a particular concerto by Mozart or a quartet by Beethoven with which to interest them in what they are to hear. Such remarks have their specific value, but to have tried to supply them for the majority of well-known works in chamber and orchestral music would have been to turn aside from the main Object which this series of volumes sets out to reach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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