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Excerpt from The Relation of Ultramodern to Archaic Music In a Foreword I have always found the gist of the matter: what an author fears he has not made plain. This series of lectures, the outcome of one Conference compiled from stray notes for a San Francisco club in 1916, is by virtue of scores of subsequent presentations so generally understandable that - contrary to the custom of writers - I shrink from the responsibility that my plain speaking entails. It is at the request of the publishers that these lectures are given to the larger audience known as the public, and my hope is that to each reader the book may serve only as a point of departure for the individual thought and research still too rare amongst musicians in my country. A Club will never take the place of a library, nor will a meeting serve the purpose of meditation. I acknowledge with gratitude my obligation to Sasaki Shigetz, Takuma Kuroda, J. Landseer Mackenzie, Emily Adams Goan and Sidney Howard, and to the devoted heart of Marie Flanner in her indispensable coöperation. Here, too, I would thank Paul Dougherty, the painter, for the encouragement given me at the outset of my researches when he said, "But any man who sees anything at all, knows that what he sees isn't all there is of it!" In music, to find the rest of it, one draws near to the Source of Life itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.