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100			_a Mathews, W S B.
240			_aHistory of the Art of Music
245			_aHistory of the Art of Music / _cW S B Mathews.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bGlobal Vision Publishing House,
300			_aiv, 442 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
520			_a About the Book Author has endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later development with the particularity proportionate to its importance, and the greater interest appertaining to it from its proximity to the times of the reader. The entire history of music is classified into five books, placing at the beginning of each book a general chapter defining the central idea and salient features of the step in development therein recounted. Primitive types of musical instruments and an artistic monody without real tonality has been discussed in the first book. The second book examines the apprentice period of modern music. The beginning of free expression in song, opera, oratorio and free instrumental music is described in the third book. The fourth book deals with the flowering time of modern music and the fifth book explains the 19th century romantic music and music of future. The student who will attentively peruse these chapters in succession will have in them a fairly complete account of the entire progress.
650			_aKing David.
650			_aOrgan.
650			_aPoetic Expression.
650			_aPalestrina.
650			_aSymphonies.
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