Elements of Music (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Elements of Music<br><br>This book on the Elements of Music is issued by authority of the Committee of Management of the Royal Academy of Music, who commend it to the study of all who enter this Royal and National Institution as pupils, and of all candidates in the Local Examinations of Musical Students who are not in the Academy. Knowledge of the subjects herein treated is imperative in every musician, the lowest as much as the highest; nay, thorough familiarity with this knowledge is the threshold of musicianship, by which alone the mysteries of the art can be entered. Many meritorious books exist wherein the elements of music are explained, but they mostly go beyond the subjects, or treat some of them incompletely. The object here is to direct attention to matters that entirely precede the study of harmony, and, by confining the student's thoughts for the time within this limit, to make such matters the clearer to understand and the easier to remember. The arrangement of the book, and some of the explanations it contains, have points of novelty which may tend to clearness, and need no preliminary description.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.