Beethoven's Opus 18 Quartets

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The Music of Spanish History to 1600-J. B. Trend, M.A.To the scholar wishing authoritative information covering a field which has been all too little explored, this book will come as an unalloyed delight. The characteristics of Muslim music, its effect-and its lack of effect-in shaping the characteristics style of Spanish music, and the literature of Muslim music, are cogently treated. A wealth of information that leaves no point vague, sixty-six musical examples, and a finely detailed index, combine to give this book a weight and largeness of value that are quite incommensurate with its modest size. Its type and form of printing are a delight to the eye and a help to the mind of the reader. The English Ayre-Peter Warlock.Like the preceding book, this is small but reviews with breadth and authoritative precision a special field of musical interest. The author puts the matter truly when he says, in his Introduction: "It is a remarkable thing that all the various other kinds of music that were flourishing in England at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries-the Mass, the Anglican service, the anthem, the madrigal, the instrumental fantasia, and the various dance forms-should have received attention at the hands of modern editors and historians before the accompanied song or ayre, the simplest of all musical forms then in vogue and the one most likely to win immediate popularity in another age." Adequately indeed, does he repair the deficiency l Following an interesting and informative Introduction are some eleven chapters or sections, together with a chronological table and "Bibliography of Modern Reprints of the Ayres." The chronological table parallels musical happenings with important events in world history. The chapters or sections treat in succession of the musical work, life, and historical environment of Dowland, John Danyel, Robert Jones, Captain Tobias Hume and many others, including Cavendish, Ford and Morley and less well known composers. Generous musical examples, facsimiles of pages from old prints and manuscripts, many quotations from letters of the FIVE NEW BOOKS FROM THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Music of Spanish History to 1600-J. B. Trend, M.A.