Music: An Art and a Language (Classic Reprint)
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Music: An Art and a Language (Classic Reprint)
                                            
                            BY Walter Raymond Spalding
                            
                                12 Jan, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        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
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                                                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. Less