TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

The book cover has been modified and was put on the public domain.

A number of words in this book have both hyphenated andnon-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present theone used more times has been kept. It was also detected that some nameshave two different spellings. That was respected as both are correct.

The musical examples that are discussed in the book can be heard byclicking on the [Listen] tab. This is only possible in the HTML versionof the book. The scores that appear in the original book have beenincluded as images.

In some cases the scores that were used by the music transcriberto generate the music files differ from the original scores. Thosedifferences are in part due to modifications that were made during the processof creating the musical archives as the music transcriber addedinstruments that were not indicated in the original scores. Othermodifications were made to correct obvious mistakes in the originalscores. These scores are included as png images,and can be seen by clicking on the [PNG] tag in the HTML version of thebook.

Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have beencorrected.