Text Book of Musical Elements

From the Preface.
THE information given in this book should be in the possession of all practical musicians; it is a pre-requisite to higher studies in musical art, and is essential to a just and intelligent rendering of music, be the performer vocalist or instrumentalist.
The lack of theoretical knowledge which is exhibited by so many amateur performers in their inability to explain or to write correctly the simplest musical passage is now recognised by the various musical institutions and ...