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MUSICAL BOOKS. Medietral Music. By R. C. Hope. (Elliot Stock. 7s. 6d. net.)— Those who wish to explore the misty realms of "modes," plain song," and "descant" will find plenty......
A Study Of Wagner. By Ernest Newman. (bertram Dobai-...
is an admirable attempt to distinguish between Wagner the incomparable dramatic musician. and Wagner the compounder of unconvincing metaphysics. Wagner wrote heaps of tracts—for......
Music And Manners. By H. E. Krehbiel. (constable And Co.
6s.)—This volume of essays on musical matters of the classic period is good reading throughout. The account of Haydn's note-book is full of amusing and characteristic things.......
In The Collector Series (redway, 7s. 6d.) Mr. Haweis...
on vielins with enthusiasm. This wonderful instrument always excites emotion in those who write of it ; it is so different from such dead, lifeless things as pianos. Its eternal......
Novels Of The Week.* The Cult Of Ma Mere, As
illustrated in the Vicomte de Luz's interesting romance of the Second Empire, is far from reach- ing the heights to which it soars in Marmontel's moral tale of "The Bad Mother."......
Makers Of Music. By R. Farquharson Sharp. (william...
book is a series of short and somewhat superficial Lives of the great musicians from Bach to Brahms, with facsimiles of their handwriting. The writer says his aim was to convey......
Wagner's Prose Works. (kogan Paul, Trench, And Co. I2s....
seventh volume of Mr. Ashton Ellis's trans- lation is better reading than the sixth. We are not wearied by so much metaphysic as before, and the musician writes about music......
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