Excerpt from Samuel Pepys Lover of Musique The following pages are based upon materials which have long been accumu lating. Last January I put some of this matter into shape for three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, and it occurred to me that as this year is the bicentenary of Pepys' death, it might be interesting to give more permanent shape to a sketch of the various points at which he touched the music of his time. Pepys was a many-sided man, and here only one side of him is treated, though that not the least interesting nor the least dear to himself. I feel, also, that to view him from this standpoint is a good corrective to the ordinary estimate of him as only too true a representative of his age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.