These seventeen lectures were delivered by well-known artists and musical writers at the time of the tercentenary of the existence of the “Worshipful company of musicians” during June, 1904. They illustrate the historical significance of the ancient instruments and books then on exhibition. “The lectures are brief and attractive essays; several are more than a résumé of what the historians have written, and offer some interesting points more or less novel.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We close the book with but one regret; that it possessed so kindly and lenient an editor as Mr. Crowest seems to have been. A little more severity might have turned out a work better fitted to bear the hardships of an unsympathetic world.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 281. S. 22, ’06. 1760w. |
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
| + | Dial. 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“An exceptionally valuable contribution to musical literature.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 500w. |
“They are necessarily rather disjointed as musical history, but are likely to fulfill a good purpose in clearing up ideas, generally vague, which many people hold concerning ancient instruments and some of the ancient music and its composers.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 700w. |