Excerpt from The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Performance of music - The art of composition Difference between this and the true theory or philosophy of music, Treatises by Hauptmann and Helmholtz, General nature of the latter work - Distinction between the physical and the musical portions, Objects and scope of the present inquiry - Its three main divisions, Contrast between physical and aesthetical principles, as influencing musical forms and rules, Erroneous ideas on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.