Contents

[I.]Preliminary Considerations[1]
[II.]The Folk-Song[19]
[III.]Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach, the Fugue[33]
[IV.]The Musical Sentence[50]
[V.]The Two-Part and Three-Part Forms[69]
[VI.]The Classical and the Modern Suite[73]
[VII.]The Rondo Form[81]
[VIII.]The Variation Form[85]
[IX.]The Sonata-Form and Its Founders—Emmanuel Bach and Haydn[91]
[X.]Mozart. The Perfection of Classic Structure and Style[108]
[XI.]Beethoven, the Tone-Poet[122]
[XII.]The Romantic Composers. Schubert, Weber[160]
[XIII.]Schumann and Mendelssohn[172]
[XIV.]Chopin and Pianoforte Style[188]
[XV.]Berlioz and Liszt. Program Music[202]
[XVI.]Brahms[228]
[XVII.]César Franck[255]
[XVIII.]The Modern French School—d'Indy and Debussy[280]
[XIX.]National Schools—Russian, Bohemian and Scandinavian[300]
[XX.]The Varied Tendencies of Modern Music[326]

[Index]

[List of Compositions]

Music is the universal language of mankind.

—Longfellow.

Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move
And manage all the man with secret art.

—Addison.