The History of Modern Music : A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

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The composer and music teacher John Pyke Hullah (1812–84) is best remembered for his 'singing school for schoolmasters'. Published in 1862, this accessible history of music, from plainsong to the mid-nineteenth century, was first given as a course of six lectures at the Royal Institution in 1861.