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CHAMBER MUSIC AND ITS MASTERS IN THE PAST AND IN THE PRESENT. By DR. N. KILBURN. New Edition, revised, and with additional chapters by G. E. H. ABRAHAM. With Plates and Music Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, 15s. net.
"Mr. Abraham has brought the work up to date and written several new chapters and the book now gives us a discussion on the most important writers and projectors of chamber music"—Musical Opinion.
ORGAN. By C. F. ABDY-WILLIAMS, M.A., Mus.Bac. Told in Nine Chapters. Thirty-eight Illustrations and Frontispiece. Illustrations of two Instruments found at Pompeii; F. W. Galpin's Hydraulus; Organ Builders; Stops; Technical Terms; Bibliography and Chronological List of Organ Specifications, 21s. net.
ENGLISH MUSIC (1604-1904). Seventeen Lectures delivered at the Music Loan Exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. By T. L. SOUTHGATE, W. H. CUMMINGS, H. WATSON, E. MARKHAM LEE, J. FINN, SIR F. BRIDGE, A. S. ROSE, A. H. D. PRENDERGAST, F. J. SAWYER, G. F. HUNTLY, D. J. BLAIKLEY, REV. F. W. GALPIN, W. W. COBBETT, J. E. BORLAND, A. H. LITTLETON and SIR E. CLARKE. Frontispiece and 115 Illustrations (Portraits, Instruments, Title Pages, etc.). Musical Examples. 16s. net.
MINSTRELSY. By EDMONDSTOUNE DUNCAN. The whole body of Secular Music that has stood the test of time and which can be called national. Early Gleemen, the Minstrels (church and social), Troubadours, the Tudor period, the great Elizabethanists, etc. Pp. xvi, 337, 16s. net.
MUSICAL FORM. By C. LUCAS. The General Principles of the Art of Composition and how they have been arrived at; explaining the development of the scale, of tonic and dominant, cadences, phrases and motives, counterpoint, canon and fugue, harmony, style, song form, variations, sonata form. Pp. xvi, 226, 16s. net.
BAGPIPE. By W. H. GRATTAN FLOOD. Its History, Origin of Reed Pipes, the Pipes of ancient Celtic Ireland and Wales, the Scottish scene and Scottish melodies, changes from 16th to 19th centuries. 26 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, list of players, index. Pp. xx, 237, 15s. net.
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