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Excerpt from What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study in Music History and Appreciation, for Four Years of High School, Academy, College, Music Club or Home Study
Yet ever, during the development of form, or poetic content, and of program music, the in?uence of the folk, has been apparent, and this strong national feeling has given rise in the modern epoch to the development of the great schools of Russia, Scandinavia and Bohemia, which to-day rank with the Italian, French and German schools.
Our most important and necessary study of how to understand music, really begins with a definite knowledge of these four funda mental principles. We shall spend our first year of study in learning to recognize these elements as they may be expressed by the human voice or various instruments. We shall carefully consider the national feeling as expressed in the simple folk dance and song of the various countries, and learn to discriminate between the racial peculiarities, which are re?ected in the art and music of the people of all lands.
For our second year's study, we consider the historical develop ment of music from ancient times to our own day.
In the third year's work, we take up the closer relationship of instrumental music to the fundamental ideas manifested in Courses I and II. We study carefully the individual tones of the instruments of the orchestra, and trace the development of the larger forms of instrumental music.
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