Preface to the Five-Volume Edition
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My Source Readings in Music History, a music-historical companion running to more than 900 pages and extending from classical antiquity through the romantic era, was originally published in 1950.

Foreword
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This book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion made in 1929 by Carl Engel in his Views and Reviews -- to fulfill his wish for "a record of musical personalities, events, conditions, tastes... a history of music faithfully and entirely carved from contemporary accounts."