Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with a work suggested by one of your fellow listeners, how to listen to music, hints and

suggestions to untaught lovers of the art by Henry Edward Krieble, author of studies in the Wagnerian drama,

Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music, The Philharmonic Society of New York, etc.

Copyright 1896 by Charles Scribner's sons, New York.

Let's begin.

To W.J. Henderson, who has helped me to respect musical criticism.

Chapter 1 Introduction

This book has a purpose, which is as simple as it is plain, and an unpretentious scope.

It does not aim to edify either the musical professor or the musical scholar. It comes into the presence of the

musical student with all becoming modesty. Its business is with those who love music and present themselves for its gracious

administrations in concert room and opera house, but have not studied it as professors and scholars are supposed to study.

It is not for the careless unless they be willing to inquire whether it might not be well

to yield the common conception of entertainment in favor of the higher enjoyment, which springs from serious contemplation of beautiful things.

But if they are willing so to inquire, they shall be accounted the class that the author is most anxious to reach.

The reasons which prompted its writing and the laying out of its plan will presently appear.

For the frankness of his disclosure, the author might be willing to apologize,

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