STUDIES IN MODERN MUSIC
HECTOR BERLIOZ, ROBERT SCHUMAN, RICHARD WAGNER.
SECOND EDITION.
By W. H. HADOW, M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxon.
‘We have seldom read a book on musical subjects which has given us so much pleasure as this one, and we can sincerely recommend it to all who are interested in the art.’—Saturday Review.
‘It is a real relief, amid the rambling and slipshod effusions which constitute the bulk of musical belles lettres, to encounter such a volume as these “Studies in Modern Music,” by Mr. W. H. Hadow. Mr. Hadow is himself a musician of no mean attainments; but there is no parade of technical knowledge in his book. He writes like a scholar and a gentleman, his style is felicitous and his critical attitude at once sane and generous.’—Graphic.
‘He writes with striking thoughtfulness and breadth of view, so that his essays may be read with much interest by musicians. It is a remarkable book, because, unlike the majority of musical treatises by amateurs, it is full of truth and common-sense.’—Athenæum.
‘The essay on musical criticism is well worth anybody’s reading; its general tendency is to extend the basis of modern criticism, commensurably with the larger and wider scope of modern music, to establish standards of musical value by which modern works can be more justly measured than by the pedantic misapplication of once valid rules. In his whole discourse on the subject Mr. Hadow gives evidence of immense common-sense, backed up by innate and cultivated artistic perception.’—Atlantic Monthly.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
STUDIES IN MODERN MUSIC