TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES In the plain text version Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. The sign ^ represents a superscript; thus ^e represents the lower case letter “e” written immediately above the level of the previous character, while ^{text} means the word “text” is written as surperscript. This volume includes a subject index for this and for the previous two volumes of this collection. In the HTML version only the material covered in this volume was possible to link to the corresponding page numbers. Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. The book cover has been modified by the Transcriber and is included in the public domain. * * * * * THE ART OF MUSIC The Art of Music A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Editor-in-Chief DANIEL GREGORY MASON Columbia University Associate Editors EDWARD B. HILL LELAND HALL Harvard University Past Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin Managing Editor CÉSAR SAERCHINGER Modern Music Society of New York In Fourteen Volumes Profusely Illustrated [Illustration] NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC [Illustration] Garden Concert _Painting by Antoine Watteau_ THE ART OF MUSIC: VOLUME THREE Modern Music Being Book Three of A Narrative History of Music Department Editors: EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL AND ERNEST NEWMAN Music Critic, 'Daily Post,' Birmingham, England Author of 'Gluck and the Opera,' 'Hugo Wolf,' 'Richard Strauss,' etc. Introduction by EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL Instructor in Musical History, Harvard University Formerly Music Critic, 'Boston Evening Transcript' Editor, 'Musical World,' etc. [Illustration] NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC Copyright, 1915, by THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC, Inc. [All Rights Reserved] MODERN MUSIC INTRODUCTION