STYLE IN MUSICAL ART

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Oxford on March 7, 1900Turning now to the subject which is proposed for our consideration to-day, it must be confessed that one can hardly think of style in man or nature or art without being importunately haunted by a familiar French pro position, which conveys to the superficial mind the view that manner counts for more than man. No doubt the familiar le style c est l homme compares unfavourably with the more ancient saying by their fruits ye shall know them, but it is probable that it was not intended to attribute so much importance to externals as the aptitude of men for misunderstanding things which are too tersely stated leads them to infer. There are thousands of things by which a man s nature may be gauged besides style. Everything that is part of him may in some.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.