Abstract

One Side of a Debate

This article presents the author's views on the writer Cecil Gray writings on music. Author Gray, writing is for the average intelligent music-lover rather than for the student, and for the general cultured reading public rather than for the professional musician and so dispenses with musical illustrations. A person who does not know a piece of music will learn nothing from a statement about it; therefore that a book for the lay reader which deals, as Gray's does, with unfamiliar types of music and disputes accepted notions should be adequately illustrated, as a book about painting is usually illustrated. Without illustrations it is not suitable for lay readers and merely provides them with phrases they cannot understand about music they do not know.