Excerpt from The Threshold of Music: An Inquiry Into the Development of the Musical Sense Iam well aware that the subject is an immense one, and that I am touching merely its periphery. The musician, and no doubt the man of science as well, may complain that I have not given the fullest consideration to that side of the art which more particularly affects himself. For the present, the middle course is the only one possible. If it should appear that I employ, in some instances, the methods of the devil's advocate, it must be borne in mind that I am considering the art less as a branch of aesthetics than as an expres sion of psychical energy, and that the results of a given period in music, or the attainments of an individual composer, have to be considered here solely in their relation to the evolution of a human faculty. 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.