Abstract

Music

The oldest of all the operas that have kept their place in the regular repertories is composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's work "Le Nozze di Figaro." There is one, however, twenty-three years older still, which is occasionally revived, "Orfeo ed Eurydice." The book "The Essentials of Pianoforte Playing," by Clayton Johns, is a convenient summary, in 84 pages, of the things a student of the piano and its literature most needs to know. Musician M.F. MacConnell's book "Some Essentials in Musical Definitions for Music Students," for the most part, the terms that an amateur or a student needs to know about are clearly defined and helpfully illustrated in this book, which aims at being something more complete than the average musical catechism, but less elaborate than the usual dictionaries of terms.