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Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
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THE ART OF MUSIC
The Art of Music
A Comprehensive Library of Informationfor Music Lovers and Musicians
Editor-in-Chief
DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Columbia University
Associate Editors
EDWARD B. HILL LELAND HALL
Harvard University Past Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin
Managing Editor
CÉSAR SAERCHINGER
Modern Music Society of New York
In Fourteen Volumes
Profusely Illustrated
NEW YORK
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC
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Garden Concert
Painting by Antoine Watteau
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THE ART OF MUSIC: VOLUME THREE
Modern Music
Being Book Three of
A Narrative History of Music
Department Editors:
EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL
AND
ERNEST NEWMAN
Music Critic, 'Daily Post,' Birmingham, England
Author of 'Gluck and the Opera,' 'Hugo Wolf,' 'Richard Strauss,' etc.
Introduction by
EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL
Instructor in Musical History, Harvard University
Formerly Music Critic, 'Boston Evening Transcript'
Editor, 'Musical World,' etc.
NEW YORK
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC
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