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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1and instrumental, in every particular. To those instructors who live at a distance from the large musical centers the contents of these books are invaluable, for they elucidate every problem and relieve each uncertainty that arises in pedagogic work.
3The wants of students and teachers are best known by those who are closely identified and in daily contact with them. From this point of view and with rare sagacity, enterprise and liberality, the most eminent educators have been secured as contributors. They have given their most mature efforts to their task, and the musical public is now offered the best, most useful and artistic "Graded Teachers' Course" in the world, the most complete summary of musical knowledge. These contributors present a galaxy of names that stand for the highest achievements in the firmament of American music. The chapter of Vocal Music is covered in the most practical manner by Frederic W. Root, whose positive Americanism is happily united with the results of observation abroad, and whose writings are ever lucid and to the point. Associated with him is Oscar Sænger, the wizard of vocal teachers, whose students are to-day the favorites at the great opera houses here and in Europe. Nothing more valuable than this master's treatment of his subject can be imagined. Harrison M. Wild, the brilliant organmaster, whose successful pupils count by the scores, and to whom the entire organ repertory from Buxtehude to Reger is an open book, gives us here the epitome of his vast experience so clearly and tersely that every organ student will find his task easier, his work systematized. That erudite Frenchman, Dolmetsch, fitly called the archaeologist of music, who has conjured up a veritable renaissance of "tempi passati," gives an entertaining chapter on the instruments of bygone days, their possibilities and literature.
5The doyen of American writers, W. S. B. Mathews, whose facile pen has graced every conceivable topic, the scholar whose mind is a veritable storehouse of knowledge,
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