The Art of Music and Other Essays (A Travers Chants) Book

	Foreword
	Translator's Note
	Acknowledgments
	The Art of Music	1
	A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies	9
	A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven	38
	Fidelio	41
	Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn	53
	The Emoluments of Singers	57
	The Current State of the Art of Singing	58
	Good Singers and Bad	69
	Gluck's Orphee	71
	Lines Written Soon after the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique	82
	The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi	88
	The Revival of Gluck's Alceste at the Opera	136
	Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old Masters	148
	High and Low Sounds	150
	Der Freischutz	152
	Oberon	156
	Abu-Hassan; The Abduction from the Seraglio	166
	The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments	170
	On Church Music	172
	Musical Customs of China	176
	Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute	180
	The Rise in Concert Pitch	193
	The End Is Near	200
	The Richard Wagner Concerts	202
	Sunt Lacrymae Rerum	210
	The Symphonies of H. Reber; Stephen Heller	213
	Romeo and Juliet	219
	Concerning a Ballet Based on Faust	228
	To Be Or Not to Be	229
	Appendix: The Lapdog School	231
	Notes	232
	Index	270