Lessons In Musical History

Lessons In Musical History. PREFACE. THIS little book is the result of the authors own efforts to interest his pupils in the History of Music and to give them an outline of that history, presenting its salient facts in a clearer perspective than he could find in any text-book he had tried to use. Since the book was begun, the excellent history of Dr. Langhans has appeared in English, but the translator is so clumsy as not to preclude the necessity of some other texebook for English-speaking students. There still remains the need of an exhaustive hktory to follow such an outline as is here attempted. Those who read German can find it in the admirable histories of Von Dommer and Ambros but the counterparts of these works are not yet to be found in Engilsh. Chappells history, so far as it has gone, is interesting and instructive to discriminating readers but its author seems too opinionated and too unbalanced to be thoroughly trusted as a guide.