Date of Award

5-1931

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

John P. Treacy

Second Advisor

Liborius Semmann

Abstract

Up to the present the music of the world, in its completences, has been the private preserve of a little band of people who happened to live in the places where it could be heard, and who happened to have money enough to pay to hear it. Henceforth, it belongs to everybody. This means an immense widening of public interest in music, and I believe, a great raise of public taste. In five years' time, in my expectation, the general musical public of Europe and America will be treble or quadruple its present size. And the next generation instead of regarding a Symphony as a mysterious contrivance of concentrated boredom, will accept the great Symphonies of the world as a part of its regular daily or weekly pleasure.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Bachelor of Music, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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