# Musical Criticisms

Author: Johnstone, Arthur, 1861-1904; Elton, Oliver, 1861-1945 [Contributor]; Reece, Henry [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42097

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Musical+Criticisms+Johnstone&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the minds of those who have specially at heart the welfare and progress of musical art in this country nothing at the present time looms larger than the church music of Bach. To acquiesce in the prevalent indifference of the public to that music we feel to be impossible. If Shakespeare is nothing but a bore, there seems to be an end of imaginative literature; and similarly, in music, any person whom Bach entirely fails to interest had better give up all pretence to being musical. For Bach is not one of the composers, like Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaïkovsky, Dvoràk, or Richard Strauss, whom it is allowable to like or dislike. Bach is the musical Bible--the foundation of the faith. Historically...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-criticisms-42097/chapters/4/index.md)