CHAPTER XVII--CONDITION OF MUSIC AT BEGINNING OF EIGHTEENTH

CENTURY 211-220

Justification of the name "apprentice period"--office of domestic musicians in England in the reign of Elizabeth--great fondness for music everywhere--casual influence of counterpoint in educating harmonic sense--madrigal--multiplicity of collections of this kind--absurd use of madrigals for dramatic monody--the work of the seventeenth century, free melodic expression--the new problem of the musical drama--the representative principle in music--music last of the arts--Florence and Venice the centers--statistics of books published from 1470 to 1500.