Purity In Music

Purity in Music

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

On Purity in Musical Art

Purity in Music

Excerpt from Purity in Music: Translated From the German by John Broadhouse Robert Schumann said Thibaut's book was "a fine work on the Tone-art," and recommends his young friends to "read it frequently;" and no apology is therefore needed for giving English readers a cheap edition of a book which won the encomiums of that eminent composer and critic. Only one word is necessary as to the translation, which I have tried to put into language which will bring before English readers the ideas a German would receive on reading the original. The heading of Chapter VII., for instance, is "Ueber Vielseitigkeit," or, "On Manysidedness"; but the latter is an awkward word, and I think the heading I have adopted gives an equivalent idea. Thibaut was a jurist first, and a musician afterwards, but his work on " Purity in Music" is that of a genuine lover of the best things in art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.