Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: MALIBRAN] FOR EVERY MUSIC LOVER A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON MUSIC BY AUBERTINE WOODWARD MOORE AUTHOR OF "FOR MY MUSICAL FRIEND" ETC. NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 55 FIFTH AVENUE Copyright, 1902, by DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY PRINTED IN U. S. A. Illustrations 1. MALIBRAN _Frontispiece_ 2. MOZART 22 3. BRAHMS 54 4. FRANZ LISZT 86 5. LILLIAN NORDICA 118 6. PAGANINI 150 7. JENNY LIND 182 8. CORELLI 214 9. SAINT-SAENS 246 Contents Preface 17 How we can approach knowledge of music. Mistaken isolation of the art. Those who belong to the privileged class. Music, as well as religion, meant for all. Business of its ministers and teachers. Promise of the twentieth century. Fruitage of our own free soil. American world-view. Purpose of volume. The Origin and Function of Music 21 Story of music affording knowledge of man's inner life. Mythology and legendary lore. Emerson's dualism. Music a mirror. Ruskin and art. Beethoven's lofty revelation. The real thing of Schopenhauer. Views of Carlyle, Wagner and Mazzini. Raw materials. Craving for sympathy in artistic type. Evolution of tone-language. French writer of 1835. Prince of Waldthurn, in 1690. Spencer's theory. Controversy and answer. Music of primeval man and early civilizations. The Vedas. Hebrew scriptures. Basis of scientific laws. Church ritual. Folk-music. Influence of crusades. Modern music architect of its own fortunes. Present musical vocabulary and literature. Counsel of Pythagoras. What Plato taught. Euripides on song. Auerbach. Martin Luther. Napoleon Bonaparte. Bain and Dr. Marx. Shakespeare, in Merchant of Venice. Wagner's unspoiled humanity. Tolstoi in art. Blunders in Music Study 43