History of Corea Ancient and Modern - Couverture souple

Ross, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1443769517 ISBN 13 : 9781443769518

Editeur : Read Books, 2008

Synopsis

PREFACE HIS book axes its origin to a request made a year or two ago by the editor of the Hull Church Porch that I would write a series of weekly articles dealing with old Hull organists and the instruments on which they played. A number of these had duly appeared, when I found myself obliged to discontinue them, not from lack of material, but from lack of time. I have been repeatedly requested to complete the work, and to issue it in a more permanent form and at odd moments of a busy life, I have now been enabled to do so. It has often been asserted, as a reproach against organists generally, that their artistic outlook is apt to be narrow, and that it is too often regarded from the particular aspect of their own instrument. The record of these pages, hovever, will shew that all the movements connected with music in Hull-the Musical Festivals, the formation of the various musical societies and other institutions for the advancement of the art- have been inaugurated or developed by organists and whatever interest the book may possess, will perhaps be found in the tale they tell of these efforts. The form in which the articles were originally prepared will account for some discursiveness in the text, and occasional instances of overlapping of matter. But while no literary merit is claimed for the book, it is hoped it may be the means of keeping from oblivion the names and work of many who have done good service for music in Hull, and may also prove an incentive to others to follow their example. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness for assistance in the preparation of the work to the late Mr. John Robinson, who sang in the choir of Holy Trinity Church in 1828, and whose memory embraced a period of over eighty years to Mr. Joseph Iienningham, who has an intimate knowledge of musical matters in the town in the middle of last century to Nrs. H. Cooper Gleadow, for many interesting particulars concerning the time when her father, the late BIr. G. J. Skelton, was the organist of Holy Trinity Church to Messrs. Forsier and Andrews, and other firms of organ builders, for copies of organ specifications and to scores of organists and other musical friends who readily complied with my requests for information among them I must specially mention my friend Dr. A. H. Mann, the organist of Kings College, Ca.mbridge, who has given me very valuable advice and help. I much regret to say that while these pages were being prepared for the press, the death occurred of Mr. F. G. Edwards, the Editor of the musical Times, who was the first to suggest the publication of the book, and who had most kindly offered to read the proof sheets.....

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The author was made painfully aware, at an early stage of his residence among the Chinese, of his own all but total ignoraace of this peculiar people, who are a world to and in themselves; and he knows that this ignorance is characteristic of his countrymen. Books written by travellers to China abound; but a visit to the Celestial Empire no more entitles a man to write on this people than the knowledge of simple arithmetic warrants a man to enter the arena of the most abstruse problems of mathematical astronomy. Travellers relate the odd, the grotesque; for this only is sufficiently notable to make it impossible to escape their passing notice. But the knowledge that the Chinese wear tails, are olive-eyed, eat birds nests, and consider bears paws the greatest delicacy, no more explains this people than beefeating accounts for the history of theE nglish; for it is not from the eccentricities of a people we can understand them, but by our knowledge of those principles which they esteem most highly, and which they are always ready to praise, though perhaps slow to practice; for it is only a small minority in any country which is found honestly endeavouring to embody in their life, up to the measure of their abiU ty, those principles of right conduct which are all but universally professed by that country. This knowledge we can acquire only from the national and every day life of a people.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443769517
• ISBN 13: 9781443769518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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