How to Listen to Music

Hints and suggestions to untaught lovers of the art. New York: Charles Scribner'S Sons, 1897. — 182 p.Summary by Sarah Jennings: This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics.From Wikipedia: Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854-1923) was an American music critic and musicologist ... Krehbiel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a general education from his father, a German clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and began in 1872 the study of law in Cincinnati, Ohio. In June, 1874, he was attached to the staff of the Cincinnati Gazette as musical critic, which post he held until November, 1880. He then went to New York, where he became musical editor of the New York Tribune. He became an influential music critic, writing many articles for the Tribune, Scribner's Monthly, and other journals. He authored many books about various aspects of music, including one of the earliest examinations of African American music ...