Music Explained to the World, 1844

While teaching at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique in Paris Fetis extended the student curriculum by lecturing on wider musical topics. He also produced a music textbook for the general public at this time with the title La musique mise a la portee de tout le monde (1830). The book enjoyed a very wide circulation, was translated into most European languages and became the first influential treatise on "musical appreciation" in the wider sense of the term. The first English version, enlarged by ten per cent, of this important book is reproduced here.Fetis, F. J. is the author of 'Music Explained to the World, 1844 ', published 1998 under ISBN 9780863140440 and ISBN 0863140440.