The art of music. Vol. 01 (of 14) : $b The pre-Classic periods

Music -- History and criticism; Musicians

It entails a change in the position of musical art which took place
in the painting art centuries earlier, and shows what a modern thing
music is. Men no longer expect music to be the expression of noble and
exalted thoughts only, but accept it as the expression of all kinds of
moods, emotions, feelings and aspirations, whether they be little and
intimate, satyric and strange, wildly extravagant, genially humorous,
pugnacious, pacific, pastoral, even uproariously domestic. It is a
new kind of differentiation in which there is inevitably a new kind
of waste. But the ideal public, which is infinitely longer than it is
broad, will ultimately apply the judgment based on the experience of
generations, and will sift out the products of the genuinely artistic
beings from the follies of the heedless ones. The purists are in
despair, but those whose optimism is invulnerable can look forward in
the unshaken belief that art will go on expanding healthily, in spite
of the confusion of tongues, through the inextinguishable passion of
true composers to find the most perfect and complete expression of
their own personalities.

                                             C. HUBERT H. PARRY.
October, 1914.




                    CONTRIBUTORS AND COLLABORATORS
                       FOR VOLUMES I, II AND III


    FRANZ BELLINGER, PH.D.              F. B.
    M.-D. CALVOCORESSI                  M.-D. C.
    W. DERMOT DARBY                     W. D. D.
    CECIL FORSYTH                       C. F.
    HENRY F. GILBERT                    H. F. G.
    LELAND HALL                         L. H.
    G. W. HARRIS                        G. W. H.
    EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL              E. B. H.
    A. WALTER KRAMER                    A. W. K.
    EDWARD KILENYI                      E. K.
    BENJAMIN LAMBORD                    B. L.
    FREDERICK H. MARTENS                F. H. M.
    EDUARDO MARZO                       E. M.
    DANIEL GREGORY MASON                D. G. M.
    HIRAM KELLY MODERWELL               H. K. M.
    IVAN NARODNY                        I. N.
    ERNEST NEWMAN                       E. N.
    SIR C. HUBERT H. PARRY              C. H. H. P.
    FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER                F. R.-W.
    CÉSAR SAERCHINGER                   C. S.
    AMELIA VON ENDE                     A. v. E.
    WILLIAM WALLACE                     W. W.
    LESLIE WHITTLESEY                   L. W.




                        CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE


                                                                    PAGE

  GENERAL INTRODUCTION                                               ix

  INTRODUCTION TO THE NARRATIVE HISTORY OF MUSIC
    BY C. HUBERT H. PARRY                                         xxvii


                          PART I. PRELIMINARIES

  CHAPTER

     I. PRIMITIVE MUSIC                                               1

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