The History of Modern Music: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Sixth Edition

The History of Modern Music - A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Sixth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The composer and music teacher John Pyke Hullah (1812-84) is best remembered for his 'singing school for schoolmasters'. Published in 1862, this accessible history of music, from plainsong to the mid-nineteenth century, was first given as a course of six lectures at the Royal Institution in 1861.