ABSTRACT
The superiority, both in quantity and quality, of full music over that composed expressly for the piano forte people consider is an admitted fact. Nothing therefore seems more likely to improve the public taste than a still greater and more general familiarity with this music, either in score, or well adapted; and accordingly it is intended to offer in the present and following lectures, an illustration of this principle. Contrariety of sentiment usually springs from a confused and imperfect knowledge of the subject in at least one of the parties. For there is a kind of Truth even in matters of taste which will ultimately prevail. Were a lecture on painting in general to be read to the mixed assemblies which frequent a public exhibition of new pictures, how astonished would the majority be at the comparatively little mention made of the contemporary productions which they had been accustomed to admire and prefer.
