Henry Smart: His Life and Works

Abstract

s Dictionary was a decidedly "happy thought."Many amateurs cannot well afford the price of the complete work, while many others find its varied contents, if not superfluous in themselves, an embarras des richesses as part of a book of reference for words in common use.The present issue exactly meets the wants of the many.Its ninety-six pages are crowded with succinct definitions of musical terminology, hardly a word being omitted.Connoisseurs may, of course, differ as to the value, and, sometimes, as to the correctness of this and that definition.In the very nature of the case this must be so; but a somewhat extensive acquaintance with musical dictionaries enables us to say that no other work of the kind conveys so much accurate information within the same compass.The little book is the best shilling's worth in all musical literature.Hewtry Smart: hts Life and Works.By William Spark Organist of the Town Hall, Leeds