Music (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Music<br><br>This book has been prepared primarily to supply the want, long expressed, of a compendious manual of musical knowledge, for the use of candidates for the Middle-Class Examinations, in connection with the Universities, &c. In the course of my experience in preparing candidates for such examinations, and in superintending classes for the Study of Musical Theory, the need of some such handbook has been very apparent, and I have repeatedly been urged to write one; it being difficult for students to remember oral instructions on a subject quite new to them; and there being no book sufficiently combining the two necessary elements of comprehensiveness and conciseness. I have endeavoured to compress within the limits of one small volume, all the information respecting Musical Theory, requisite for such students, so far as, in the nature of the case, such information could be supplied didactically. The book comprehends the entire range of theoretical knowledge.<br><br>I cannot but hope, therefore, that it will be found useful to Musical Students generally, beyond the class for whose use it was originally designed. It furnishes a guide to their studies, and a body of instruction, succinct indeed, but not, I trust, meagre or superficial, such as may help them to recall the more detailed instructions imparted orally by their professors; and serving, by its systematic arrangement, and its copious Index, together with the Glossary, as a book for ready reference in the course of their studies.<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.