THEORY OF MUSIC

ARTHUR FOOTE

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY W. L. HUBBARD EMIL LIEBLING AND W. J. HENDERSON

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Ο Arthur William Foote ( 1853 – 1937) ήταν Αμερικανός κλασικός συνθέτης και μέλος του “Boston Six.”.
Arthur William Foote ( 1853 – 1937) was an American classical composer, and a member of the “Boston Six.”

INTRODUCTION
W. L. HUBBATUX
A lengthy prefacing of the American History and Encyclopedia of Music is scarcely necessary,
” Good wine needs no bush/* and so a good book needs no extended statement of the reason for its making. It is believed and hoped
that the volumes here presented to the public will contain within themselves ample justification for their being and their issuance. If they do not, then, no amount of preliminary explaining- and excusing will win for them favor and
the right to live* They must stand by themselves and it is felt that they will
The first idea of the work sprang from the desire of a gentleman to inform himself on certain musical points. He, like a large majority of the men and women of this country, is a sincere lover of music, but has been able to devote little or no time to the study of the science and the art themselves. Wishing, however, one day to learn concerning certain happenings in musical history, and certain facts of musical theory, he consulted such books as were at hand, and while he found that the historical information was obtainable
although in several instances only after search through varied and sometimes very rare volumes -the theoretical parts when discoverable were as a rule couched in language…

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