Symphonies and their meaning . NINTH EDITION PHILADELPHIA & LONDONJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright, 1897 BY J. B. Lippincott Company HAROLD B LEE LIBRARY BRI6MAM T0UN6 UNIVERSITY PROVO. UTAH TO MRS. A. J. D. DIXON WHO ENCOURAGED THE LECTURES FROM WHICH IT GREW THIS BOOK ISDEDICATED Musicus qui numerans nescit se numerare PREFACE The plan of this book is very simple It isreally the reverse of the traditional. Little ishere told of the lives of the masters; of acomposers ancestry, of the painful scale of hiscareer, even of the date of his works. Con-crete events have, in themselves, no
Symphonies and their meaning . NINTH EDITION PHILADELPHIA & LONDONJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright, 1897 BY J. B. Lippincott Company HAROLD B LEE LIBRARY BRI6MAM T0UN6 UNIVERSITY PROVO. UTAH TO MRS. A. J. D. DIXON WHO ENCOURAGED THE LECTURES FROM WHICH IT GREW THIS BOOK ISDEDICATED Musicus qui numerans nescit se numerare PREFACE The plan of this book is very simple It isreally the reverse of the traditional. Little ishere told of the lives of the masters; of acomposers ancestry, of the painful scale of hiscareer, even of the date of his works. Con-crete events have, in themselves, no yet, it is believed, instead of a loss, thereis in this very omission a great gain of per-sonal interest, of insight into the essence ofa masters individual quality, of his poeticcharacter. The plan is to open the book and see whatis there, without discovering subtle stories orgraphic pictures, avoiding, too, a mere tech-nical analysis. There may be, in such an ac-count of the impression of a master work, adiscovery hersymphoniestheirm01goep
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