Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Recognition of Musical Elements
Chapter 3 The Content and Kinds of Music
Chapter 4 The Modern Orchestra
Chapter 5 At an Orchestral Concert
Chapter 6 At a Pianoforte Recital
Chapter 7 At the Opera
Chapter 8 Choirs and Choral Music
Chapter 9 Musician, Critic, and Public
Index
Some Musical Books

Purpose and scope of this book--Not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art--neither for careless seekers after diversion unless they be willing to accept a higher conception of what "entertainment" means--The capacity properly to listen to music as a touchstone of musical talent--It is rarely found in popular concert-rooms--Travelers who do not see and listeners who do not hear--Music is of all the arts that which is practised most and
thought about least--Popular ignorance of the art caused by the lack of an object for comparison--How simple terms are confounded by literary men--Blunders by Tennyson, Lamb, Coleridge, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, F. Hopkinson Smith, Brander Matthews, and others--A warning against pedants and rhapsodists...