Daniel Gregory Mason

CHAPTER I THE PERIODS OF MUSICAL HISTORY

CHAPTER II PALESTRINA AND THE MUSIC OF MYSTICISM

CHAPTER III THE MODERN SPIRIT

CHAPTER IV THE PRINCIPLES OF PURE MUSIC

CHAPTER V HAYDN

CHAPTER VI MOZART

CHAPTER VII BEETHOVEN

CHAPTER VIII BEETHOVEN (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION

BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS

BY

DANIEL GREGORY MASON

AUTHOR OF “FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS”

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

COPYRIGHT, 1904,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1904.
Reprinted August, 1911.

Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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