This is the fourth volume of The Art of Music, an encyclopaedic fourteen-volume survey of the field produced in the early twentieth century by a body of distinguished contributors. The series aimed to cover the history, theory, and practice of music in comprehensive detail.
This volume continues the work’s broad treatment of the art, examining its assigned periods, forms, or traditions as part of the larger plan. Authoritative and thorough, the collection was among the most ambitious music reference works of its era. Readers will find here a substantial and well-organised body of scholarship forming one component of a sweeping account of the whole subject of music.