Despite the fact that this retail revolution unfolded right before our eyes, this book is the first to describe the market-making capabilities of these retailers.

Science and poetry, rationalism and rhetoric--these polarities form both division and unity in an age which ushered in the New Science and led to destruction of the concepts which had given poetry its rational character.

This book instructs pianists on how to manipulate piano keys to produce every variety of tone, including note values, pulsation in music, phrases, dynamic contrasts and shadings, tempo, color, and style.