Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Studies in Music Biography
I. The author's intention is that the book be used for actual study.
II. It presupposes that the student will continue to learn and therefore to extend his investigation of the subject into other books. Hence this volume is not final.
III. It aims to present not everything, but What is needful as one's first knowledge, and yet some suggestions beyond it.
IV. Hence besides being a book of requirement it is also a book leading to further study.
V. It aims to fix the composer not merely in his century, but in relation to other men, thus makinga group easy to retain.
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