Excerpt from Gleanings From the History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century W1: have no apology to offer for compiling this book. We believe that most lovers of music, and especially teachers, choristers, and others, will, upon reading it, acknowledge themselves our debtors. There is, in the world, no language so general, and (if we except one's own tongue) so important, as that of music. Concerning this language (and the science) we have collected a great number of historical facts, which could not before he obtained by those most interested, except at great expense and inconvenience. 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.