4 Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 



ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI : HIS LIFE 

 AND WORKS. 



By EDWARD J. DENT, 



FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 



Svo. With Portrait. 



To most musical people Alessandro Scarlatti is little more than a 

 name, and even musical historians have been singularly cautious in 

 their references to him. He is, however, a very important figure in 

 the history of music, on account of his influence on the formation of 

 the classical style i.e., the style of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, 

 and Beethoven. His numerous works have almost all remained in 

 manuscript, although he was quite the most celebrated composer of 

 his time (1659-1725), and the difficulty of obtaining access to them 

 has no doubt prevented musicians from studying him in detail. For 

 this biography special researches have been made in the principal 

 libraries of Europe, and much new material has come to light 

 Besides the story of Scarlatti's life, derived in great part from hitherto 

 unpublished diaries and letters, a careful analysis is given of his 

 most important compositions, considered specially in their relation to 

 the history of modern tonality and form. The book is copiously 

 illustrated with musical examples, and includes a complete catalogue 

 of Scarlatti's extant works, with the libraries where the manuscripts 

 are to be found. 



STUDIES IN VIRGIL. 



By TERROT REAVELEY GLOVER, 



FELLOW AND CLASSICAL LECTURER OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, 

 AUTHOR OF 'LIFE AND LETTERS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY.' 



Demy Svo. IDS. 6d. net. 



This book does not deal with questions proper to an edition of, or a 

 commentary on, Virgil. As little space as possible is given to matters 

 of pure scholarship, philology, or archaeology, but an attempt is 

 made to realize as clearly as may be the literary and poetic value of 

 Virgil's work by showing the poet's relations with his age and 

 environment, his conceptions of the questions peculiar to his time and 

 country, and of those common to all times and countries, and his own 

 peculiar sense of the direction in which the answers of these questions 

 are to be sought. 



