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The Balance of Expression and Design in Music (II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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After referring to his first lecture, Sir Henry Hadow said: Of course you will understand that I do not propose to give you this evening the history of music in three-quarters of an hour. All I can do is to pick out one or two points which seem of interest—points from which you can make your own journeys of departure.

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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1923

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Two Songs, “Pallas dread sacker of cities” and “A far-reaching cry” are said by Aristophanes to have been used in the Athenian schools. See Clouds 967.Google Scholar

No doubt this dates from Lutenists—perhaps even from Benvenuto Cellini's father, but its development during the seventeenth century was none the less rapid.Google Scholar