By DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Editor of “Masters in Music,” Lecturer in
the New York Normal College and in the
Extension Department of Columbia University
Beethoven and His Forerunners
Four portraits and 25 plates. Cloth, $1.50 net
“Mr. Mason has brought the same clear thought, suggestiveness and philosophic spirit to bear upon this subject as he exhibited in his former volume, and the result is a treatment that will be found stimulating by all who approach music as something more than a mere sensuous pleasure.”—Richard Aldrich in The Music Review.
The Romantic Composers
12mo, cloth, $1.75 net
The composers treated are Schubert, connecting link between Beethoven and the “romantic” school; Schumann, who created a new type of piano music; Mendelssohn, who anticipated the orchestral style of to-day; Chopin, the supreme master of the pianoforte; Berlioz, the pioneer of the dramatic symphony and a virtuoso of the orchestra; and Liszt, who contributed to music that form,—the symphonic poem,—most persistently cultivated by modern musicians.
“Mr. Daniel Mason is a critic of music whose deliverances one may not ignore. Since the appearance, four years ago, of his volume of studies in modern music, from Grieg to Brahms, he has been recognized as an uncommonly able commentator upon the most difficult and evasive of the arts. He has scholarship, he is penetrating and alert, and he is master of a style at once dignified and engaging, distinguished and precise.”—Bookman.