CONTENTS

PAGE
[Description of Frontispiece] [ix]
[Introductory] [1]
[Technical Terms and Instruments] [21]
[Musical Education] [58]
[Songs and Singing] [65]
[Serenades and 'Music'] [96]
[Dances and Dancing] [113]
[Pythagoreanism, etc.] [152]
[Use of Musical Stage Directions] [165]
[Appendix] [185]

[Index]


DESCRIPTION OF FRONTISPIECE

[I am indebted for the arrangement of this picture to the kindness of the authorities at South Kensington Museum, where all these instruments may be found, except the Pipe and Cornet, which belong to my friend, Mr W.F.H. Blandford.]