Excerpt from The Renaissance of Music
Professor Max Muller has said that the art of reading at the present day is the art of knowing what not to read; and De Quincey, in one of his essays, says that, if a man has found out nothing new, he has no right to write a book at all, and if he has found out something new, he certainly has no right to conceal his discovery in five hundred pages, but should state at once on what page it is to be found.
Volumes and volumes have been published on the Renaissance; histories of art and histories of music have been written; and biographies have been piled upon biographies without number. My "apologia" for these pages is that an attempt is made in them to show the intimate family relation between Music and her elder sisters - a relationship always traceable, and most evident at the period when they attained to years of discretion, and, passing from the traditions of a period of nurture, began to think and to act for themselves.
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