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THE TERM'S MUSIC BY CEDRIC HOWARD GLOVER LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. J. CURWEN & SONS, LTD. NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO. 1925 "Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material. . . . It is the art of music which most completely realises this artistic ideal, this perfect identification of matter and form. In its consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other; and to it, therefore, to the condition of its perfect moments, all the arts may be supposed constantly to tend and aspire. In music, then, rather than in poetry, is to be found the true type or measure of perfected art." WALTER PATER, CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION • I FIRST YEAR George Frederick Handel (1685- NOTE The matter contained,in this book has appeared in a series of articles in the Parents Review." It is now reproduced, with certain additions and alterations, by the courtesy of the Editor of that periodical, to whom the author tenders his grateful acknowledgments. Although the book primarily intended for use in schools, the author hopes that individual seekers after musical knowledge of riper years, may also find within its pages something to help them in their quest for a better understanding of the music of the great composers. Posers. FIRST TERM: 1759) SECOND TERM : John Sebastian Bach 4685- '750) 27 THIRD TERM : W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) - 39 SECOND YEA I PIRs1 'HAIM : Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827) 51 SECOND 'TERM : Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - 67 1HIRD TERM : Robert Schumann (i8xo-1856) - 8o THIRD YEAR PIRS7 "f1.,104 Johann Brahmt, (1833-x897) - sv,osi) .11.,101 : Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - IUI THIRD 4E104 Edvard (srIt.; (I8434907) Ilij FOURTH YEAR k MST TERM : Mous‘orgsky (1834-1881) and fioroidin (0434-1887) - 129 tshCONI) TERM : Antonin Dvotik (1841-1904) - 146 HURD -r ERNI : Claude Debtr,sy (1862-1918) - •11,4•(.11114•11 Examination Questions 172