Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARIES
- CHAPTER II SCALES
- CHAPTER III FOLK-MUSIC
- CHAPTER IV INCIPIENT HARMONY
- CHAPTER V THE ERA OF PURE CHORAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF SECULAR MUSIC
- CHAPTER VII COMBINATION OF OLD METHODS AND NEW PRINCIPLES
- CHAPTER VIII CLIMAX OF EARLY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER IX BEGINNINGS OF MODERN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER X THE MIDDLE STAGE OF MODERN OPERA
- CHAPTER XI THE MIDDLE STAGE OF “SONATA” FORM
- CHAPTER XII BALANCE OF EXPRESSION AND DESIGN
- CHAPTER XIII MODERN TENDENCIES
- CHAPTER XIV MODERN PHASES OF OPERA
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- INDEX
CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARIES
- CHAPTER II SCALES
- CHAPTER III FOLK-MUSIC
- CHAPTER IV INCIPIENT HARMONY
- CHAPTER V THE ERA OF PURE CHORAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF SECULAR MUSIC
- CHAPTER VII COMBINATION OF OLD METHODS AND NEW PRINCIPLES
- CHAPTER VIII CLIMAX OF EARLY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER IX BEGINNINGS OF MODERN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- CHAPTER X THE MIDDLE STAGE OF MODERN OPERA
- CHAPTER XI THE MIDDLE STAGE OF “SONATA” FORM
- CHAPTER XII BALANCE OF EXPRESSION AND DESIGN
- CHAPTER XIII MODERN TENDENCIES
- CHAPTER XIV MODERN PHASES OF OPERA
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- INDEX
Summary
There are probably but few people in the world so morose as to find no pleasure either in the exercise or the receipt of sympathy, and it is to be hoped there are very few so blind or perverse as to regard it as an undesirable and useless factor in the human psychological outfit. Whether it is the higher development of an original instinct which enabled mankind to rise above the rest of the animal world by co-operation and mutual helpfulness, or whether it is the outcome of the state of mutual dependence which is the lot of human beings, it is obviously a quality without which society could hardly continue to exist in the complicated state of organisation at which it has arrived. The jarring interests of hurrying, striving millions require something more than mere cold-blooded utilitarian motives to keep them properly balanced; and in matters of everyday life the impulses which tend to mutual helpfulness and forbearance are fed by the ordinary phases of this omnipresent instinct. But there are many kinds and infinitely variable degrees of sympathy, and some people love best to bestow it, and some there are who much prefer to receive it.
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- The Evolution of the Art of Music , pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009