The design of this little volume is to give a succinct account of the progressive steps in the development of modern music as an art. The author has therefore endeavored to avoid encumbering the book with details of the lives of composers. The standard works on the history of music are, almost without exception, constructed on the biographical plan. The author of this volume has aimed at separating the history of the art from that of the artists. In following this design he has avoided giving the story of the growth of the ...
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The design of this little volume is to give a succinct account of the progressive steps in the development of modern music as an art. The author has therefore endeavored to avoid encumbering the book with details of the lives of composers. The standard works on the history of music are, almost without exception, constructed on the biographical plan. The author of this volume has aimed at separating the history of the art from that of the artists. In following this design he has avoided giving the story of the growth of the tone art in any one country at any particular period; but has sought to place before the reader a clear general outline of the advancement of musical creativeness throughout Europe. In doing this he has flitted from Rome to Venice, and from Paris to Vienna, whenever it was necessary to show what was going on in all those places at the same time. The plan of the book has enabled the writer to review the salient points of musical history with comprehensive brevity. This, he thinks, will be especially advantageous to the lover of music who has not the time, and perhaps not a sufficient knowledge of musical science, to read with profit the large and exhaustive standard histories. The chronological table is entirely new. It has been prepared with great care, and contains many important dates which could not be introduced into the body of the work without needlessly encumbering its pages.
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