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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1that others have previously realised the educational value of the proposal, for as far back as 1845 a concert of sixteenth-century music, for the performance of which instruments of the same period were used, was given in London by the desire of the late Prince Consort. Many will also remember the delightful concerts of old music played on ancient instruments given at the South Kensington Exhibition in 1885 by musicians who came to England for that purpose from Brussels and Amsterdam. Fortunately we have no longer to seek such players abroad; we can find them at home, although as yet we have no society or regular body of professional players who devote themselves solely to the study and mastery of the many instruments that are no longer heard, except on rare occasions. Owing to this fact and to the craze for "big effects" begotten of the modern orchestra, the charm possessed by much perfect and delightful music written by composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is practically lost to the world. If then, for no other reason, the Exhibition would be justified by the fact alone that by instituting these lectures and providing instrumental illustrations to them, it had served to open up a practically unexplored region of most beautiful music which, notwithstanding all that has hitherto been done, is known only to the musical historian and to a very small number of zealous amateurs.
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