Apparent printer's errors have been retained, unless stated below.
"_" surrounding text represents italics.
Punctuation, capitalization, accents and formatting markup have been
made consistent in the text. This excludes the footnotes due to several
inconsistencies.
Page 2, "Giques" changed to "Gigues". ('Pieces de Clavecin, en deux
Volumes, consistant des Ouvertures, Preludes, Fugues, Allemandes,
Courentes, Sarabandes, Gigues et Aires, composees par J. Mattheson,
Secr.--London, printed for J. D. Fletcher.')
Page 6, "I I" changed to "I". (I am sure if he reads this he will laugh
in his sleeve, for outwardly he seldom laughs.)
Page 58, "Quartett for 2 Violins, 2 Tenors, and Violoncello". Although
the instruments described constitute a quintett, this is how it appears
in the original.
Page 132, "unusally" changed to "unusually". (There remained now nothing
for him to do but to take up his jacket and make the best of his way
home. But the jacket felt so unusually heavy;)
Page 141, "ecstacy" changed to "ecstasy". (After he had been a while in
this state of reflection, he heard heavenly strains of music, and on
looking up he saw a little bird which sang with a voice so enchantingly
melodious that he arose in ecstasy.
Page 151, "semicircle" changed to "semi-circle" for consistency.
(Sometimes they form a semi-circle, assume a bending position, and sing
in a subdued tone of voice a soft air;)
Page 158, "Odeinna" changed to "Oodeinna" for consistency. (The
following scenes are from a drama commemorating an episode from the life
of Oodeinna, King of Kauthambi, a country in India.)
Page 174, "develope" changed to "develop". (The Netherlandish masters
institute Schools in Italy and develop the art of music with great
success in that country.)