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Title: Music: An Art and a Language
Author: Walter Raymond Spalding
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MUSIC: AN ART AND A LANGUAGE
BY
WALTER RAYMOND SPALDING
_Price $2.50 net_
THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO.
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Copyright, 1920, by THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO.
International Copyright Secured
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TO MY COLLEAGUES
IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WILLIAM CLIFFORD HEILMAN, EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL,
ARCHIBALD THOMPSON DAVISON, EDWARD BALLANTINE
SUPPLEMENTARY
ILLUSTRATIONS
for
_MUSIC:
an ART and a LANGUAGE_
Vols. I & II now ready
(_Schmidt's Educational Series No. 257-a, b_)
Price $1.00 each volume
Preface
Although "of the making of books there is no end," this book, on so
human a subject as music, we believe should justify itself. A
twenty-years' experience in teaching the Appreciation of Music at
Harvard University and Radcliffe College has convinced the author that
a knowledge of musical grammar and structure does enable us, as the
saying is, to get more out of music. This conviction is further
strengthened by the statement of numerous students who testify that
after analyzing certain standard compositions their attitude towards
music has changed and their love for it greatly increased.
In the illustrations (published in a Supplementary Volume) no
concessions have been made
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