This is the seventh volume of The Art of Music, the encyclopaedic fourteen-volume survey of the field compiled in the early twentieth century by a body of distinguished contributors. The series set out to treat the history, theory, and practice of music in comprehensive scope.
This volume continues the work’s broad coverage, devoting itself to its assigned periods, forms, or branches of the art within the larger design. Authoritative and detailed, the collection ranks among the most ambitious music reference projects of its time. Readers will find here a substantial body of expert scholarship forming one part of a sweeping and well-organised account of the whole subject of music.