This is the third volume of The Art of Music, a comprehensive fourteen-volume survey of music compiled in the early twentieth century with contributions from many leading authorities. The series set out to cover the history, theory, and practice of the art in encyclopaedic breadth.
This volume continues the work’s coverage of music’s development, treating particular periods, forms, or national traditions as part of the larger scheme. Authoritative and richly detailed, the set was among the most ambitious music reference projects of its time. Readers will find here a substantial body of scholarship on its assigned subjects, forming one part of a sweeping account of the whole art of music.