Both "DvorÀk" and "DvorÀk" were used in this text; both have been changed to "DvorÁk". Similarly, on page 174, "PÀn" was changed to "PÁn", and "Frantisek" to "FrantiŠek".

On Page 119, a footnote marker was added to the text (don't care for money.'[21])

Many other variant and alternative spellings have been preserved, except where obviously misspelled in the original or where one spelling was more common in the main text. Obvious punctuation and formatting errors have also been corrected.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

There are five musical examples: the footnote referring to each has links to the musical notation (Example A); a midi file ([Listen]); and and a MusicXML file ([XML]), which can be viewed in most browsers, text editors, and music notation applications.

The printed text contained duplicate headings for each division (before and after each epigraph); in each case the latter instance has been removed.