Walter Raymond Spalding

Music: An Art and a Language, by Walter Raymond Spalding, is a classic music guide that concerns itself with music as music. It is assumed that, if anyone really loves this art, he is willing and glad to do serious work to quicken his sense of hearing, to broaden his imagination, and to strengthen his memory so that he may become intelligent in appreciation rather than merely absorbed in honeyed sounds.

This classic has outlived its original title, but not its usefulness.