The great aim with “The Music Story Series” of books will be to make them indispensable volumes upon the subjects of which they treat.  They will be authoritative, interesting, and educational books—­furnished with appendices which will give them permanent value as works of reference, data, etc.  Each volume will tell all that the reader may want to know upon any of the aspects of musical art which the various works of the series will cover.

The following volumes are ready or in course of production, and will be published at short intervals:—­

THE STORY OF ORATORIO.  BY ANNIE W. PATTERSON, B.A., MUS.  DOC. 
THE STORY OF NOTATION.  BY C.F.  ABDY WILLIAMS, M.A., MUS.  BAC. 
THE STORY OF THE PIANOFORTE.  BY ALGERNON S. ROSE, Author of
     “Talks with Bandsmen.” 
THE STORY OF HARMONY.  BY EUSTACE J. BREAKSPEARE, Author of
     “Mozart,” “Musical AEsthetics,” etc. 
THE STORY OF THE ORGAN.  BY C.F.  ABDY WILLIAMS, Author of
     “Bach” and “Handel” ("Master Musicians Series"). 
THE STORY OF THE ORCHESTRA.  BY STEWART MACPHERSON, Fellow
     and Professor, Royal Academy of Music; Conductor of the Westminster
     Orchestral Society. 
THE STORY OF CHAMBER MUSIC.  BY N. KILBURN, MUS.  BAC. 
     (Cantab.), Conductor of the Middlesbrough, Sunderland, and Bishop
     Auckland Musical Societies. 
THE STORY OF BIBLE MUSIC.  BY ELEONORE D’ESTERRE-KEELING,
     Author of “The Musicians’ Birthday Book.” 
THE STORY OF THE VIOLIN.  BY A PRACTICAL VIOLINIST.
THE STORY OF CHURCH MUSIC.  BY THE EDITOR. 
ETC., ETC., ETC.

Each volume will be produced in the highest style of typographical excellence, with choice illustrations in photogravure, collotype, line, and half-tone reproductions.  The paper for the series will be specially made, deckle edge, with wide margins for readers’ and students’ notes.  The size of the volumes will be square crown 8vo, richly gilt, and bound in extra cloth; price 3s. 6d. net.

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NOW READY: 

THE STORY OF ORATORIO,

300 pp., with a Collotype Portrait of Handel, Four Half-tone Portraits of the great Composers of Oratorios, numerous Line Reproductions in facsimile, and a splendid Photogravure Frontispiece of Raphael’s masterpiece—­“St. Cecilia”—­after the painting in the Academy of Bologna.

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THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING COMPANY, LTD., LONDON AND NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE