Medi?val Music
An Historical Sketch (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Medival Music: An Historical Sketch<br><br>This second edition has been thoroughly revised, rearranged in form, and several new features have been added.<br><br>The first edition, thanks to the public and the kind criticisms almost unanimously accorded to it by the press, was out of print within a month of its publication.<br><br>The long delay in issuing this edition has been caused partly by a lengthy absence during a tour in the East, and partly by a long and serious illness.<br><br>In compiling this historical sketch many and great difficulties have had to be coped with; to solve them the best authorities have been appealed to, and, where such have failed to supply the particular information sought for, that opinion which on mature consideration appeared most feasible has been given.<br><br>The Supplementary chapter on Homonic and Monadic Music has been appended with the object only of giving in as clear and concise a manner as possible a general outline of the developments to which the science of harmony bad attained from the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.<br><br>Any attempt to elucidate a complex and neglected subject like the present one, must of necessity call forth criticisms both from those who are capable as from those whose blind prejudice renders them incapable of the expression of an opinion.<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.