Excerpt from The Realm of Music: A Series of Musical Essays, Chiefly Historical and Educational These essays have been compiled from different periodicals to which I have been, during the past ten years, a frequent contributor. In collating them I have sought not so much for literary contrast as to present to the musical student a series of views of our inexhaustible art in many Widely-differing phases. The musician's reading, even in the technical field, is today necessarily a very Wide one, and While these articles may not present an exhaustive View of any one subject, they may at least lead the reader to take an interest in the different branches of music, and thereby avoid becoming merely a specialist, in the art - a result to which the keen rivalry ofthe present is undoubtedly leading. In the hope that this vol ume may be the entrance to further musical thought and reading it is submitted to the student, for Whom it is especially intended. 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.