Music Appreciation
Based on Methods of Literary Criticism
By CLARENCE G. HAMILTON, A. M.
Music Students Library, with 263 illustrations, diagrams and music cuts. 396 pages, cloth Price, $2.50
The illustrative examples of piano pieces and songs that appear in this book are issued in a separate volume entitled:
TYPICAL PIANO PIECES AND SONGS
Size, 9½ × 12½; 144 pages; paper Price, $1.50
A thorough and unique textbook for individual use, music clubs, classes, and educational institutions. Invaluable for those who wish to listen to music with quickened hearing and real understanding. With twenty-four portraits, twenty-eight diagrams and over two hundred music cuts.
What Educators have said regarding Professor Hamilton’s
MUSIC APPRECIATION
Sumner Salter, Director of Music, Williams College:
“I am convinced of the skill and thoroughness of treatment and of the far reaching practical value of the work.”
Walter H. Aiken, Director of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio:
“One of the best, in my opinion, of anything thus far in print leading to music appreciation through music analysis: telling the pupil what to study and how.”
Arthur Foote, Boston, Mass.
“The scheme is a new one and seems to me of much practical value. The analyses are lucid and just the thing to teach the pupil how to think and work out such matters for himself.”
H. D. Sleeper, Professor of Music, Smith College:
“Capitally planned and carried out to meet a very definite need—the awakening of intelligence regarding good music in the minds of young people of high school and college age.”
Joseph N. Ashton, Director of Music, Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., formerly Professor of Music, Brown University:
“An admirable book. The music selected as a basis of study is such as the student would be expected to be acquainted with. The scheme avoids on the one side mechanical dryness and on the other vague and valueless rhapsody. With this book sterile study is well-nigh impossible.”
Mrs. Frank A. Seiberling, President National Federation of Music Clubs:
“The book will be invaluable to use in music clubs as a means of getting a fundamental understanding of the history of music and the various forms of compositions. When our next pamphlet goes out to the clubs of our national federation I shall list the book for use as a reference manual for the entire season for club study.”
Dr. Percy Goetschius, Institute of Musical Art, New York City:
“I am thoroughly delighted with the book. It is an original, very sensible and practical method of approaching this important subject; it is admirably planned and its comprehensive contents admirably systematized; and it is written with a delightful mixture of simplicity and erudition that makes it both easy to use and appealing to the student.”
A List of Victor Record Illustrations to accompany Music Appreciation, by Clarence C. Hamilton, A. M., Professor of Music at Wellesley College, has been prepared by the Educational Department of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and will be sent free to any address, on request, by Oliver Ditson Company.
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