ABSTRACT
Such practical instruction teaches the grammar of music on precisely the same principle as that which teaches the grammar of literature. Grammarians point out the forms which have been, and are, used by the best writers; they reduce them to a system, and hold them up for students to imitate. So with the grammar of music, the examples of the great composers are brought into systematic forms, and the pupils are taught to consider these forms as the standards of propriety.
