MUSIC AND LIFE
MUSIC AND LIFE
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONS
BETWEEN OURSELVES AND
MUSIC
BY
THOMAS WHITNEY SURETTE
AUTHOR OF
“The Development of Symphonic Music”
AND (WITH D. G. MASON)OF
“The Appreciation of Music”
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press
Cambridge 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THOMAS WHITNEY SURETTE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published March 1917
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author desires to express his thanks to the Editor of the AtlanticMonthly for permission to use, as a part of this book, material from aseries of articles that appeared in his magazine.
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| CHAPTER I | ||
| WHAT IS MUSIC? | ||
| I. | Distinction between Music and the Other Arts | 1 |
| II. | The Elements of Music | 6 |
| III. | The Significance of Music | 13 |
| IV. | Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty | 18 |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| MUSIC FOR CHILDREN | ||
| I. | Training the Sense for Beauty | 26 |
| II. | The Value of Singing | 36 |
| III. | Current Methods of Teaching | 41 |
| IV. | What should Children sing? | 45 |
| V. | The Fallacy of the Inevitable Pianoforte Lesson | 50 |
| VI. | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |