(Director of Music at Phitl Academy, Andover, Mass.)
Andre Pirro, the Sorbonne's well known musicologist, says the French edition this book that Karl Nef has provided the most reliable guide for students, the most instructive survey of facts and opinions for the amateurs of music.
The book is comprehensive, yet it is not over-long. It does not make the mistake of placing too much emphasis on history at the expense of appreciation, or vice versa. Actual scores included to illustrate the narrative.
'The series studies in Musicology' inaugurated by the Columbia University Press, of which the above volume is the First Number, is intended to meet the needs of the English. speaking student for the crystallization of various phases of musical knowledge around which the rapidly expanding material may be oriented.
"The choice of the'first volume of the series was dictated by the desire to provide an introductory manual which would be of interest to the beginner in musical history, since a scholarly view of the development of the art must be the foundation of scholarly research into special problems..."
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