MALIBRAN
FOR EVERY MUSIC LOVER
A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON MUSIC
BY AUBERTINE WOODWARD MOORE
AUTHOR OF "FOR MY MUSICAL FRIEND" ETC.
NEW YORK
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
55 FIFTH AVENUE
Copyright, 1902, by
Dodge Publishing Company
Printed in U. S. A.
Illustrations
| 1. Malibran | Frontispiece |
| 2. Mozart | 22 |
| 3. Brahms | 54 |
| 4. Franz Liszt | 86 |
| 5. Lillian Nordica | 118 |
| 6. Paganini | 150 |
| 7. Jenny Lind | 182 |
| 8. Corelli | 214 |
| 9. Saint-Saëns | 246 |
Contents
How we can approach knowledge of music. Mistaken isolation of the art. Those who belong to the privileged class. Music, as well as religion, meant for all. Business of its ministers and teachers. Promise of the twentieth century. Fruitage of our own free soil. American world-view. Purpose of volume.
The Origin and Function of Music 21
Story of music affording knowledge of man's inner life. Mythology and legendary lore. Emerson's dualism. Music a mirror. Ruskin and art.
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