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Excerpt from The Main Stream of Music and Other Essays The problem of indexing this allusive, talkative prose style is no easy one; the indexer is racked with constant tortures of indecision, of over-fulness, repentant excision, and a nervous final jump to what he hopes is safe ground. For the adoption of an entirely arbitrary plan, I am solely responsible, and would apologize in advance for those omissions which each reader will observe and those redundancies which, no doubt, will irritate many. I am responsible, too, for the text as definitively printed. But I record here my great gratitude to those who read the first proofs, and who indeed assisted 'me in the task of gathering together the material: I refer, of course, to those indefatigable workers in the Tovey cause, Dr. Mary Grierson, Dr. Ernest Walker, and Mr. R. C. Trevelyan. 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.