Excerpt from The History of Modern Music: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
This volume contains the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in the early part of this present year. I have explained in the first Lecture the motives which dictated my choice of subject; in its treatment I have kept two objects constantly in view.
(1) To bring out and illustrate that great change in the idiom of Modern Music which accompanied or followed the Renaissance; and to show how far this change differed in kind and in extent, from that produced on the Sister Arts by the same agency. I do not think that this can be said to have been done, or even attempted, before, - within the same limits, or in any connected manner. The musical student desiring information on the subject has been hitherto compelled to seek it at a number of sources, often difficult of access, and not always very satisfactory when reached.
(2)In connexion with this I have tried to awaken some interest and curiosity among my hearers (or readers), in what may be briefly described as "unknown music."
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