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Music Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1945

Hubert S. Middleton
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“… once we have recognised that knowledge in itself is good for man, we shall need to invent no pretexts for studying this subject or that; we shall import no extraneous considerations of use or ornament to justify us in learning one thing rather than another.”

This short extract from Professor Housman's Introductory Lecture delivered before the Faculties of Arts and Laws and of Science in University College, London, in the year 1892, is set down here to help me to disencumber my mind and to tell a plain tale in simple words; indeed, you too will have pondered upon those things which appertain to Music Studies. Throughout this Paper “I tell you that which you yourselves do know,” and I shall hope to be instructed in the Discussion.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 71 , 1945 , pp. 49 - 68
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1944

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